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"The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation."
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"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."
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Personal Development
"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."
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Personal Development
"If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred."
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Personal Development
"A feeble body weakens the mind."
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Personal Development
"As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind."
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Personal Development
"Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it."
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Personal Development
"The body is not a reliable friend."
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Personal Development
"The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse."
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"Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem."
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"A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband."
Husband
"Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body."
Body
"There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy."
Pleasure
"That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart."
Heart
"To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude."
Solitude
"A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript."
Mind
"The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life."
Life
"A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her."
Sex
"Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip."
Destruction
"Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable."
Beauty
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