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Quote by George Santayana
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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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. – George Santayana

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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of ones life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. – George Santayana

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Time was when I despised the body:
But then I saw the God within.
The Body I relaised is the Lords temple;
And so I began preserving it with care infinite. – Thirumoolar

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

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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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