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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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Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. – George Santayana

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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome. – George Santayana

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Time was when I despised the body:
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The Body I relaised is the Lords temple;
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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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