"Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves."

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"The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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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."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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Mason Cooley, American Writer

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Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"A feeble body weakens the mind."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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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."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it."

Horace, Roman Poet

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"The body is not a reliable friend."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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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."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

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"Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation."

"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."

"If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred."

"A feeble body weakens the mind."

"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."

"Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it."

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