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It is because the spirit is inestimable that the lifeless body is so little valued.
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The Blithedale Romance, Chapter 28

 

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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[W]e shall find a very material difference between the body and the spirit; the body is supposed to be organized matter, and the spirit, by many, is thought to be immaterial, without substance. With this latter statement we should beg leave to differ, and state the spirit is a substance; that it is material, but that it is more pure, elastic and refined matter than the body; that it existed before the body, can exist in the body; and will exist separate from the body, when the body will be mouldering in the dust; and will in the resurrection, be again united with it.

 

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In strategy your spiritual bearing must not be any different from normal. Both in fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. Even when your spirit is calm do not let your body relax, and when your body is relaxed do not let your spirit slacken.

 

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Mathematics is one of the essential emanations of the human spirit, a thing to be valued in and for itself, like art or poetry.

 

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When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

 

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