Keeping fit / by Orison Swett Marden.

  • Orison Swett Marden
Date:
[1914]
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Credit: Keeping fit / by Orison Swett Marden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    force, deterioration expresses itself at once in everything one does. The quality of the work cannot be up to high-water mark when any faculty or function, any of your ability is prejudicially affected by inferior physical or mental condition. You may be sure that your weakness, whatever its cause, will appear in your day’s work to dilute or cheapen its quality, whether it is making books or selling them, teaching school or study- ing, singing or painting, chiseling statues or digging trenches. I know men with but one talent whose life habits are so healthful and regular; whose meal hours, time for recreation and sleep, exercise, and vacations are so well ordered; who take such superb care of themselves that they are constantly at the top of their physical and mental condition, and accomplish with ease much more than other men of five or ten tal- ents who waste their energy and squander their power by abusing their human machines, so marvelously and wonderfully made. I recall a slipshod, slovenly farmer who never seemed to have anything just right on his farm. His fences needed mending; his
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