“Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven,
When drooping health and spirits go amiss?
How tasteless then whatever can be given!
Health is the vital principle of bliss,
And exercise, of health.”

—  James Thomson (poet) , The Castle of Indolence

Canto II, Stanza 55.
The Castle of Indolence (1748)

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