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Showing posts with label exercise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exercise. Show all posts

Sunday, October 25, 2026

Post #3359

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought,
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.
The wise, for cure, on exercise depend;
God never made his work, for man to mend.
—John Dryden, from his 1700 poem "To My Honour'd Kinsman, John Driden, of Chesterton."

Friday, July 31, 2015

Post #1870

There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.
―Henry Ward Beecher

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Thursday, January 30, 2014

Post #1469

A man must often exercise, or fast, or take physic, or be sick.
—Sir William Temple

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Monday, December 09, 2013

Post #1429

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is, by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he was poor.
—Sir William Temple

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A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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