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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and

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

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A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud. – George Santayana

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If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are – like fishes not meant to swim. – Cyril Connolly

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The body is the souls poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam. – Robert Herrick

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There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man. – Novalis

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Time was when I despised the body:
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