8 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau about body
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My soul and body have tottered along together of late, tripping and hindering one another like unpracticed Siamese twins.
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The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body, has a spirit; is organic and fluid to the influence of its spirit and to whatever particle of the spirit is in me.
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The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.
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This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore.
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Every day our garments become more assimilated to ourselves, receiving the impress of the wearer's character, until we hesitate tolay them aside without such delay and medical appliances and some such solemnity even as our bodies.
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Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.
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How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls!
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The body can feed the body only.
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