SLEEP.
“When tired with vain rotations of the Day,
Sleep winds us up for the succeeding dawn.”
Young.
Health may be as much injured by interrupted and insufficient Sleep, as by luxurious indulgence.
Valetudinarians who regularly retire to rest, and arise at certain hours, are unable, without injurious violence to their feelings—to resist the inclination to do so.
“Pliant Nature more or less demands
As Custom forms her; and all sudden change
She hates, of Habit even from bad to good.
If faults in Life—or new emergencies
From Habits[24] urge you by long time confirm’d,
Slow must the change arrive, and stage by stage,
Slow as the stealing progress of the Year.”
Armstrong’s Art of Preserving Health.
How important it is, then, to cultivate good and convenient Habits:—Custom will soon render the most rigid rules, not only easy, but agreeable.—