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Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary read more
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and read more
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
 Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven,
 When drooping health and spirits go amiss?
  How tasteless read more 
 Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven,
 When drooping health and spirits go amiss?
  How tasteless then whatever can be given!
   Health is the vital principle of bliss,
    And exercise of health. 
 There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life: 
brain, blood, and breath. Press the read more 
 There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life: 
brain, blood, and breath. Press the brain a little, its light 
goes out, followed by both the others. Stop the heart a minute, 
and out go all three of the wicks. Choke the air out of the 
lungs, and presently the fluid ceases to supply the other centres 
of flame, and all is soon stagnation, cold, and darkness. 
 Nor love, not honour, wealth nor pow'r,
 Can give the heart a cheerful hour
  When health is read more 
 Nor love, not honour, wealth nor pow'r,
 Can give the heart a cheerful hour
  When health is lost. Be timely wise;
   With health all taste of pleasure flies. 
A cheerful heart is good medicine.
A cheerful heart is good medicine.
Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
 In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving 
health to men.
 [Lat., Homines ad read more 
 In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving 
health to men.
 [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt quam salutem 
hominibus dando.] 
 He is a heavy eater of beef. Methinks it doth harm to his wit.
Wm Shakespeare in Twelfth Night.  
 He is a heavy eater of beef. Methinks it doth harm to his wit.
Wm Shakespeare in Twelfth Night.