See also Disease
631. Disease; Health
"He that for a short gratification brings weakness and diseases
upon himself, and for the pleasure of a few years passed in the
tumults of diversion and clamours of merriment, condemns the
maturer and more experienced part of his life to the chamber and
the couch, may be justly reproached, not only as a spendthrift of
his own happiness, but as a robber of the public; as a wretch
that has voluntarily disqualified himself for the business of his
station, and refused that part which Providence assigns him in
the general task of human nature."
Johnson: Rambler #48 (September 1, 1750)
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634. Health
"Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by
health that money is procured."
Johnson: Rambler #48 (September 1, 1750)
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941. Health; Idleness
"Ease is the utmost that can be hoped from a sedentary and
unactive habit; ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure.
The dance of spirits, the bound of vigour, readiness of
enterprise, and defiance of fatigue, are reserved for him that
braces his nerves and hardens his fibres, that keeps his limbs
pliant with motion, and by frequent exposure fortifies his frame
against the common accidents of cold and heat."
Johnson: Rambler #85 (January 8, 1751)
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1,397. Corruption; Health
"All assemblies of jollity, all places of public entertainment
exhibit examples of strength wasting in riot, and beauty
withering in irregularity; nor is it easy to enter a house in
which part of the family is not groaning in repentance of past
intemperance, and part admitting disease by negligence, or
soliciting it by luxury."
Johnson: Rambler #178 (November 30, 1751)
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1,399. Eating; Health; Pleasure
"There is no pleasure which men of every age and sect have more
generally agreed to mention with contempt than the gratifications
of the palate, an entertainment so far removed from intellectual
happiness that scarcely the most shameless of the sensual herd
have dared to defend it: yet even to this, the lowest of our
delights, to this, though neither quick nor lasting, is health
with all its activity and sprightliness daily sacrificed; and for
this are half the miseries endured which urge impatience to call
on death."
Johnson: Rambler #178 (November 30, 1751)
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