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health n.
1 a : the condition of being sound in body, mind, or spirit; especially : freedom from physical disease or pain b : the general condition of the body (in poor health)(enjoys good health)
2 a : flourishing condition : WELL-BEING (defending the health of the beloved oceans -- Peter Wilkinson) b : general condition or state (poor economic health)
3 : a toast to someone's health or prosperity
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

"Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied." —Charles Caleb Colton

"When health is absent
Wisdom cannot reveal itself,
Art cannot become manifest,
Strenght cannot be exerted,
Wealth is useless, and
Reason is powerless." -Herophilies

"For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything." —Owen Arthur

"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver." — Mahatma Gandhi

"In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired." -Author Unknown
"The best six doctors anywhere
And no one can deny it
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they'll ease
Your will they'll mend
And charge you not a shilling."
-Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, What the River Knows, 1990

"A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison." -Francis Bacon

"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, weatlhy and wise." -Benjamin Franklin

"Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say." -W.H. Auden

"The first wealth is health" Ralph Waldo Emerson

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