If Men would but Inure themselves to do those things by Choice, which
’tis Forty to One they shall be some time or other forc’d to do by
Necessity, it would exceedingly Advance the Peace and Comfort of Human
Life; for all those Miseries are only Visionary and Fantastical, so far
as we Govern our selves by Opinion rather then by Reason. Our Bodies are
not Naturally more Tender then our Faces; but by being less Expos’d to
the Air, they become less able to endure it. Exercise makes things Easie
to us, that would be otherwise very Hard; as in Labour, Watchings, Heats
and Colds: And then there is something _Analogous_ in the Exercise of
the Mind, to that of the Body. ’Tis Folly and Infirmity that makes us
Delicate and Froward. We are taught likewise in the Differing Tempers and
Conditions of the _Rich Man_ and the _Poor_ here, that a Man may be Happy
with a Little, and Miserable in Abundance.