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“The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary clothes, so that nothing be lacking to honesty and necessity, yet nothing be added to increase its beauty.”

Should Body Honesty Clothes Ordinary Increase Simplicity Neglect Modesty Lacking Dazzling Apparel Niceties

Author:Ambrose

“In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.”

Body Brain Half Health Disease These Days Neglect Overwork

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“It is sad to see how the most of men neglect their precious souls, turning their backs upon the glorious gospel, and little minding a crucified Jesus, when, in the meanwhile, their bodies are well provided for, their estates much regarded, and the things of this present life are highly prized, as if the darling was of less value than a clod of earth; an immortal soul, than a perishing body; a precious Saviour, than unsatisfying creatures.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)

“There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.”

Soul Body Pay Attention Neglect Old Proverb

Book:Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

“We need others for our physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Without others we are nothing. Our sense that we are an island, an independent, self-sufficient individual, bears no relation to reality. It is closer to the truth to picture ourself as a cell in the vast body of life, distinct yet intimately bound up with all living beings. We cannot exist without others, and they in turn are affected by everything we do. The idea that it is possible to secure our own welfare while neglecting the welfare of others, or even at the expense of others, is completely unrealistic.”

“The longer I live, the more I am certified that men, in all that relates to their own health, have not common sense! whether it be their pride, or their impatience, or their obstinancy, or their ingrained spirit of contradiction, that stupefies and misleads them, the result is always a certain amount of idiocy, or distraction in their dealings with their own bodies! ... either by their wild impatience of bodily suffering, and the exaggerated moan they make over it, or else by their reckless defiance of it, and neglect of every dictate of prudence!”