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In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing whatsoever is worth the cost of a contracted heart.
— Gil Fronsdal
Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Let the mind be enlarged ... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind
— Francis Bacon
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
— Mahatma Gandhi
She cherished her spiritual books and doesn't deny the debt contracted from some of them. -- Kieran Kavanaugh regarding Teresa of Avila
— Kieran Kavanaugh
Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.
— Thomas Hobbes
The fact is that some of the mice [tested on with AZT] have contracted cancer. It attacks bone marrow. It is very toxic.
— Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
Gnosis is lived upon facts, withers away in abstractions, and is difficult to find even in the noblest of thoughts.
— Samael Aun Weor
That's nice, isn't it?" Edith said. "That little kid is so trusting it's kind of holy, but if his trust were misplaced it would really be holy.
— Joy Williams
We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.
— Henry David Thoreau
Medical school had been a time for imaginary diseases and Martin had contracted almost all of them.
— Robin Cook
In truth, I barely knew my father at all. He was 53 when I was born, and when I was ten he contracted cancer. Eight years later, in 1979, he died.
— Rory Bremner
We have made progress from where we were when President Obama took office, when the economy - our economy had just contracted almost by nine percent.
— Mitt Romney
He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions.
— Robert South
Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
— Joseph Addison
I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing.
— Max Ehrmann
The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and the friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable.
— Thomas Paine
Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness.
— Deepak Chopra
The muscle in Matthew's jaw contracted. First pirates, then this fop. Kathryn did not seem to be a woman of discriminating taste when it came to men.
— Sandra Marton
Ella was a perfect study in contradictions, and I'd somehow contracted her like a beautiful disease.
— Laura Marie Altom
A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.
— Isaac Watts
When the term 'machine gun' enters common parlance, the word 'machine' becomes much more sinister.
— Scott Westerfeld
He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.
— David Alan Grier
Just heard a commercial
which told me
Farmer John smokes his own
bacon.
now, there's one tough
son of a
bitch. — Charles Bukowski
which told me
Farmer John smokes his own
bacon.
now, there's one tough
son of a
bitch. — Charles Bukowski
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
— Jonathan Swift