Body Proverbs (87 Proverbs)
- Like soap for the body so are tears for the soul.
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- The body is a sponge, the soul an abyss.
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- What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.
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- Faith is confirmed by the heart, confessed by the tongue, and acted upon by the body.
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- Your companion's body is beside.
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- The soul goes to God, the body to the earth, and belongings to those to whom they should go.
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- The best wine is that a body drinks of another man's cost.
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- When the head aches all the body is the worse.
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- If the camel once get his nose in a tent, the body will soon follow.
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- It is worse to be sick in the soul than in body.
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- An healthy mind for an healthy body.
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- Grow old, body, the heart still remains.
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- Envy follows merit like the shadow follows the body.
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- It is an unthinking man who achieves prosperity, and then finds with time, that his body can no longer pass through the door.
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- The crooked bannock straightens the body.
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- The force which a body at rest exercises on a body in motion impinging upon it.
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- While alive in rags; when dead in satin to cover the body.
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- You know your body best.
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- Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs, all mortal creatures exist depending upon one another.
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- Parents give birth to the body of their children, but not always to their characters.
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- If the goat says it will become a sheep, there will always be black spots on its body.
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- To bow the body is easy, to bow the will is hard.
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- The pain of the little finger is felt by the whole body.
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- My Ka dwells in my body. Insult it not.
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- All work and no play make Jack a dull body.
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- The soul to God, and the body to the Earth.
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- One washes the body in vain if one does not wash the soul.
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- There's no evil that lasts a hundred years, nor a body that can endure it.
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- In a healthy body, a healthy spirit.
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- Train equally the mind and body.
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- Inside a well-nourished body, the soul remains longer.
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- Industry keeps the body healthy,
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- When the head of a snake is cut off, the rest of his body is an ordinary rope.
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- When your leg is sinking your whole body should fill it.
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- The raised hand cares not for its own recognition, but for that of the body below.
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- He that fought the lion must surely have the lion's claws in his body.
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- Not everything on the body that swells is a boil.
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- When the heart acts the body is its slave.
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- The sickness of the body is the cure of the mind.
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- Easier to bend the body than the will.
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- Better to satisfy the body than to tarnish the soul.
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- A man need never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his own door.
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- He who has a straight body is not worried about his crooked shadow.
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- The mind is the emperor of the body.
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- When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy.
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- What is said over the dead lion's body, could not be said to him alive.
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- The shirt is nearer to the body than the coat.
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- When the wolf's ears appear, his body is not far off.
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- Death is a shadow that always follows the body.
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- When the head is sick the whole body is sick.
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- A healthy soul cannot live in a dry body.
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- The tiredness of the body is the health of the soul.
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- Doctors purge the body, ministers the conscience, lawyers the purse.
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- Man without woman, is head without body; woman without man, is body without head.
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- The shadow should be the same length as the body.
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- Wisdom is lost in a fat man's body.
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- The plagiarist turns the body inside-out and changes the bones.
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- If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by.
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- A bath refreshes the body, tea refreshes the mind.
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- What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
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- No one is free who is a slave to his body.
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- If the head aches all the members of the body suffer.
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- When the head acheth, all the body is the worse.
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- The force which a body at rest exercises on a body in motion impinging upon it. [Stolid immobility or masterly inactivity.]
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- Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.
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- Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.
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- Do not refuse the body what it asks for.
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- Do not measure another man's coat on your body.
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- Where the body wants to rest, there the legs must carry it.
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- Sometimes the body becomes healthy by being very sick.
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- Three things must epigrams, like bees, have all, A sting, and honey, and a body small.
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- He who takes a wife for her body, will loose the body and keep the wife.
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- As is the human body, so is the cosmic body. As is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind. As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm. As is the atom, so is the universe.
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- My whole body is covered with eyes. Behold it. Be without fear I see all around.
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- Like two golden birds perched on the selfsame tree, intimate friends, the ego and the Self dwell in the same body. The former eats the sweet and sour fruits of the tree of life while the latter looks on in detachment. As long as we think we are the ego, we feel attached and fall into sorrow. But realize that you are the Self, the Lord of life, and you will be freed from sorrow. When you realize that you are the Self, supreme source of light, supreme source of love, you transcend the duality of life and enter into the unitive state.
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- Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs, all moral creatures must depend on each other to exist.
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- The root of all health is in the brain. The trunk of it is in emotion. The branches and leaves are the body. The flower of health blooms when all parts work together.
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- The body is the house of God. That is why it is said, 'Man know thyself.'
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- The physician prescribes the medicine, the vulture waits for the body.
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- Your body is the temple of knowledge.
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