Quote by Robert Herrick
The body is the souls poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are

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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Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score;
Then to that twenty, add a hundred more:
A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on,
To make that thousand up a million.
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Lets kiss afresh, as when we first begun. – Robert Herrick

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If a little labor, little are our gains. Mans fortunes are according to his pains. – Robert Herrick

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Time was when I despised the body:
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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. – George Santayana

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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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