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"I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate."
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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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"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."
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"If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred."
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"A feeble body weakens the mind."
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"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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"Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it."
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"The body is not a reliable friend."
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"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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"IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life."
Life
"I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up."
Time
"I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate."
Body
"IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere."
Dream
"The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden."
Reading
"For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven."
Love
"Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society."
Society
"The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious."
Fact
"With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome."
Life
"When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!"
Family
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