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Health

«Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.»
«We are the carriers of health and disease - either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety»
«To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.»
«The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor»
Author: William Temple, Sr. | About: Health, Richness | Keywords: abstinence, rich man
«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.»
«What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | About: Health | Keywords: anxiety, diet, perpetual, purchased, tedious
«To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear. Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.»
«Time is generally the best doctor.»
Author: Ovid (Author, Poet) | About: Doctors, Health, Time
«To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when we are not well.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Health | Keywords: basis, moral duty, preserve, social
«To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.»
Author: Seneca | About: Health | Keywords: becoming, be well