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“Within this wall of flesh There is a soul counts thee her creditor, and with advantage means to pay thy love; and, my good friend, thy voluntary oath lives in this bosom, dearly cherished.” William Shakespeare, King John
“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“the true votaries of philosophy abstain from all fleshly lusts, and hold out against them and refuse to give themselves up to them” Plato, Phaedo
“We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“The article of justification must be sounded in our ears incessantly because the frailty of our flesh will not permit us to take hold of it perfectly and to believe it with all our heart.” Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians
“You—you strange, you almost unearthly thing! —I love as my own flesh. You—poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are—I entreat to accept me as a husband.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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