"A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul."
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"If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible."
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"You must love anything you must do. Do it not only cheerfully, but also lovingly and the very best way you know how. That love of the work which you must do anyhow will vitalize your body and keep you from fatigue."
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"In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills."
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"As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've taken before."
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"In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit."
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"Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body."
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"Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise."
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"And Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences, whether we consider its subjects as furnishing the principal subsistence of life to man and beast, delicious varieties for our tables, refreshments from our orchards, the adornments of our flower-borders, shade and perfume of our groves, materials for our buildings, or medicaments for our bodies."
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"The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host."
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"Habits are where our lives and careers and bodies are made."
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"Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies."
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"The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought."
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"If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows."
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"if i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow"
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"My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped."
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"God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me."
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"Taking care of your body, no matter what your age, is an investment."
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"The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder."
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"Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both."
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