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    Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour.

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The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

by Carol Leifer Found in: Body Quotes,
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Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but read more

Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.

by Chungliang Al Huang Found in: Body Quotes,
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Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body

Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body

by De Saint-real Found in: Body Quotes,
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The human body is a machine which winds its own springs.

The human body is a machine which winds its own springs.

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All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of read more

All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity housed in our bodies.

by Flavius Josephus Found in: Body Quotes,
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A feeble body weakens the mind.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

by Jean-jacques Rousseau Found in: Body Quotes,
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other read more

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

by W. H. Auden Found in: Body Quotes,
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Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.

by Frank Gelett Burgess Found in: Body Quotes,
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Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved by reflection, and strengthened read more

Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

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