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- Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
- Samuel Smiles
- It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.
- Johnson
- Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.
- C. C. Colton
- Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.
- Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
- Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
- Author Unknown
- Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it.
- Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
- The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
- Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)
- Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.
- William Penn (1644 - 1718)
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