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His 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than…
- 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…
More His Body Quotes
- A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops. — Johnny Bench
- Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean. — Geoffrey Chaucer
- Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun. — Woody Allen
- Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could… — Henry David Thoreau
- The mind is perhaps one of the greatest factors in gymnastics; if one can't control his mind, he can't control his body. — Unknown Author
- Because the demands on the goalie are mostly mental, it means that for a goalie the biggest enemy is himself. Not a… — Ken Dryden
- That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready… — Thomas Huxley
- Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous… — Albert Einstein
- A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him. — William Lyon Phelps
- Truly, hope is the saint's covering, wherein he wraps himself, when he lays his body down to sleep in the grave: "My… — William Gurnall
- Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: 'This is My Body.' No one partakes… — Saint Augustine