"Exercise humility and restraint."
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"I've been an exercise maniac most of my adult life, running marathons and triathlons, doing that as a regular way of life. I ran eight miles a day, every day for 29 years."
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"The dullest observer must be sensible of the order and serenity prevalent in those households where the occasional exercise of a beautiful form of worship in the morning gives, as it were, the keynote to every temper for the day, and attunes every spirit to harmony."
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"What if I bade you leave The cavern of the mind? There's better exercise In the sunlight and wind."
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"He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter."
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"A turn or two I'll walk To still my beating mind."
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"There is no better exercise than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it."
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"... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement."
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"We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it."
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"Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity."
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"Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that have been offer'd to private subjects."
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"Worship is an exercise of the Holy Spirit directed primarily to God"
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"We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can. We do not give them a training as if webelieved in their noble nature. We scarce educate their bodies. We do not train the eye and the hand. We exercise their understandings to the apprehension and comparison of some facts, to a skill in numbers, in words; we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers; but not to make able, earnest, great- hearted men."
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"All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light, is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the background of our being, in which they lie,--an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed."
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"Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind."
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"The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being deprived of it."
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"I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers."
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"We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it leaves us where we were. It names things, but does not add things."
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"There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise."
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"The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed. The present cultural crisis on the surface of the planet is caused by the fact that this is not a fitting theater for the exercise of imagination. It wrecks the planet. The planet has its own Eco-systemic dynamics, which are not the dynamics of imagination."
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