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• Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.

  Robert South

  Reading, Useless, Eating

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• We must pay close attention to the signals our body sends - the aches and pains, digestions and indigestions, increased energies and exhaustions. Our body sends us signals about the correct 'spelling' of our lives. These sensations are the sum of complex inner computations that we must learn to interpret.

  Susan Collins

  Pain, Body, Pay

  Susan Collins (1996). “Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press

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• Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.

  Walter Scott

  Mirth, Meat, Music Is

  Walter Scott (1875). “Waverley Novels: The monastery”, p.251

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• Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Ayurveda, Morality

  Les Miserables 'Fantine', Bk III, Ch. 7

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• Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it

  Tryon Edwards

  Way, Contemplation

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.239, Ravenio Books

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• There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance – poverty and misery where exhaustion is followed by wretchedness instead of regeneration, or great riches and an entirely effortless life where boredom takes the place of exhaustion and where the mills of necessity, of consumption and digestion, grind an impotent human body mercilessly and barrenly to death – ruins the elemental happiness that comes from being alive.

  Hannah Arendt

  Lasting Happiness, Boredom, Balance

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.108, University of Chicago Press

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• There are some readers who have never read an essay on taste; and if they take my advice they never will, for they can no more improve their taste by so doing than they could improve their appetite or digestion by studying a cookery-book.

  Robert Southey

  Book, Advice, Taste

  Robert Southey (1865). “The Doctor, Etc”, p.99

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• I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Laughing, Belief, Always Believe

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.

  Lord Byron

  Food, Men, Thinking

  Lord Byron (2017). “Don Juan”, p.102, BookRix

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• I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

  Zona Gale

  Preparation, Knows, Good Digestion

  Zona Gale (1907). “The Loves of Pelleas and Etarre”

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• Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!

  William Shakespeare

  Waiting, Appetite, Good Digestion

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 38

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• I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion- keep you from eating, which I liked to do.

  Septima Poinsette Clark

  Hurt, Ice Cream, Eating

  Septima Poinsette Clark (1990). “Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement”

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• This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Pain, Reflection, Periods

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• Thanks to our present surgical methods in physiology we can demonstrate at any time almost all phenomena of digestion without the loss of even a single drop of blood, without a single scream from the animal undergoing the experiment.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Loss, Animal, Blood

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• In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.

  Michael Behe

  Eye, Cells, Black

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• Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.

  Mary Webb

  Giving, Lord, Thee

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• DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Imperfection, Wicked

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.57, University of Georgia Press

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• It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Men, Sight, Long

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• Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

  Anthony Trollope

  Power, Looks, Crowds

  Anthony Trollope (2008). “Rachel Ray: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.570, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.

  Harriet Martineau

  Heart, Men, Literature

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• The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.

  Herbert Read

  Passion, Literature, Assumption

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

  Samuel Butler

  Healthy, Conservative, Stomach

  Samuel Butler, Hans-Peter Breuer (1984). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: 1874-1883”, Univ Pr of Amer

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• Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Pain, Positivity

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.37, New World Library

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• Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Knowledge, Practice

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from May 06, 2017

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• Sin is like an incredible meal that becomes poisonous venom in your stomach. What you eat on Earth you may digest in Hell.

  LeCrae

  Meals, Earth, May

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