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When I must shipwrack, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotenc

When I must shipwrack, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotencie might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming. – John Donne

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Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years, till we attain to write threescore: this is the second of our reign. – John Donne

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Remembrance
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John Donne
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No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,
As I have seen in one autumnal face. – John Donne

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Seasons
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It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Use it or lose it. – Jimmy Connors

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Exercise

There are really only two requirements when it comes to exercise. One is that you do it. The other is that you continue to do it. – The New Glucose Revolution for Diabetes by Jennie Brand-Miller, Kaye Foster-Powe

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Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart. – Gene Tunney

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I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. – Winston Churchill

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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasnt changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman. – John Berger

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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. – John Locke

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Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church. – William Ames

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Faith