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| A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without. |
| Joseph Addison |
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| Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive. |
| Charles Caleb Colton |
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| Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul. |
| Wayne Dyer |
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| Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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| Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. |
| John Steinbeck |
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| Had double chins all the way down to his stomach |
| Mark Twain |
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| Indigestion is - that inward fate which makes all Styx through one small liver flow |
| Lord Byron |
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| Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body. |
| George Santayana |
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| The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us. |
| Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. |
| George Santayana |
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| The body is most fully developed [at] from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine. |
| Aristotle |
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| The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants. |
| Theodore Roosevelt |
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| The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak |
| Bible |
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| The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified. |
| Bob Wells |
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| To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning |
| Henry David Thoreau |
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