What's Ben |
What's Verse |
Health see also DIET, DOCTORS, HERBS and TEMPERANCE & INDULGENCE. |
If thou wouldst live long, live well; for Folly and Wickness shorten Life. [1739] | Moral ambiguity
Shortens the annuity. |
We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness. [1747] | Rosy health
Blooms in stealth. |
Herbs |
Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men. [1755] | Trust herbs,
Not blurbs. |
History |
Historians relate, not so much what is done, as what they would have believed. [1739] | Historians sway
The battles their way. |
Neither praise nor dispraise, till seven Christmasses be over. [1740] | Grade op-ed page
That’s … grade-school age. |
Happy that nation, fortunate that age, when history is not diverting. [1740] | "Interesting times"
Tick off the enzymes. |
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