Quote#Politics & Power
Health is the greatest of all possessions; a pale cobbler is better…
Quote byIsaac Bickerstaffe · 1733–1812
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Reported in Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908), p. 221..
English (original)
Health is the greatest of all possessions; a pale cobbler is better than a sick king.
— Isaac Bickerstaffe
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'Tis a sure sign work goes on merrily, when folks sing at it.
There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the river Dee; He worked and sung from morn till night: No lark more blithe than he.
Young fellows will be young fellows.
And this the burden of his song Forever used to be,— I care for nobody, no, not I, If no one cares for me.
Hope! thou nurse of young desire.
By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.