The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pa

The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts. – Samuel Butler, Notebooks

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Destroy the roots of the healthiest plants, their heads will droop and die. Many excellent qualities of the mind have their roots, in fact, in the body: their summits, which adorn the spiritual being, the mind, will wither, if we neglect the soil of these valuable plants… – C.G. Salzmann, Gymnastics for Youth: or, A Practical Guide to Healthful and Amus

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What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera. – Aldous Huxley

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Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The body never lies. – Martha Graham

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