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When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot read more
When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied. -Herophilus.
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest read more
The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.
The first wealth is health.
The first wealth is health.
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.
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.
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.]
A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.
A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.
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.
