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“It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead.”

Men Mind Persons Body Speed Engines Delicate Ambitious Mind And Body Neurotic Vigorous Robust Indicators Ambitious Man

Author:William Osler

“Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front of the canvas. Paint is a cast made of the painter's movements, a portrait of the painter's body and thoughts.”

Made Body Records Fronts Movement Painting Paint Casts Painter Sat Delicate Gestures Canvas Portraits Tense

Book:What Painting Is

Source: What Painting Is

“Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the ferocity of the Hussite, of the Catholic, of the Puritan, of the Spaniard, of the Irish Orangeman and of the Irish Papist; it has divided families, alienated friends, lighted the torch of civil war, and borne the virgin and the greybeard to the burning pile, broken delicate limbs upon the wheel and wrung the souls and bodies of innocent creatures on the rack; all this it has done, and done in the name of God.”

“A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies; one may say simply "fineness of nature.”

Mind Firsts May Body Capable Structure Gentleman Characteristics Sensations Delicate

Book:pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation

Source: pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation

“I wonder why men can get serious at all. They have this delicate long thing hanging outside their bodies, which goes up and down by its own will. First of all, having it outside your body is terribly dangerous. If I were a man I would have a fantastic castration complex to the point that I wouldn't be able to do a thing. Second, the inconsistency of it, like carrying a chance time alarm or something. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.”

Source: Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono

“The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.”

Men Body Hands Written Duty Arms Labor Muscles Delicate Machinery Stout

Book:The critical and miscellaneous writings of Theodore Parker

Source: The critical and miscellaneous writings of Theodore Parker