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«For me, one of the pleasures of cats' company is their devotion to bodily comfort»
«Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.»
«Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result»
«Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?»
«But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
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«It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.»
«A bodily disease may be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past»
«A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
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ailment, bodily, look upon, symptom, The Spiritual
«Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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«Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.»
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