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Body Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded…
- Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself…
- The eye is the jewel of the body.
- Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work…
- But what is quackery? It is commonly an attempt to cure the diseases of a man by addressing his body alone. There is need of…
- The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.
- Even the utmost good-will and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say,…
- I stand in awe of my body.
- The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.
- Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit…
- When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. . . . How beautifully they go to their graves! How…
- I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk…
- My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic. Facts…
- I would remind my countrymen, that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. No matter how valuable…
- What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies…
- What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies…
- It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to an ancient fable,…
- When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and the nimble early…
- Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will,…
- You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for…
- Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.
- The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air…
- A gun will give you the body, not the bird
- Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he…
- The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.
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- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine