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Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.
Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part.