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- The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
- The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands…
- Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no…
- An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which…
- The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human…
- When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have…
- The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet invented sufficient aids…
- Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong…
- The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers to disseminate early…
- The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow)…
- The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step…
- If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice…
- 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,…
- Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.
- A strong body makes the mind strong.
- Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of nature.…
- What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares…
- Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.
- The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion…
- The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But their virtuous feelings…
- We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive…
- From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which I find healthful…
- Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.
- Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.
- Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
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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