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Quote by Cyril Connolly
If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied a

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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Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action. – Cyril Connolly

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

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