"Body and soul" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is convenient for purposes of classification to divide a man into body and soul, even when we believe the soul to be only a function of the body, so people talk of his intellectual side and his emotional side, his thinking quality and his feeling quality, though in fact and at the roots these qualities are not two but one, with temperament for the common substratum. ...
— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley
... servant, fearing that his notions of service would not do for Paris, and left him to the superintendence of the household. The marquis had a quiet talk with this man, took his measure, warped his mind as he wished, gave him some money, and acquired him body and soul. These different agents undertook to stop the chatter of the servants' hall, and thenceforward the lovers ...
— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - THE COUNTESS DE SAINT-GERAN--1639 • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE
... world, dead to all she loved most dearly, Itha consecrated herself body and soul to God for the rest of her earthly years. If she suffered as the wild children of nature suffer, she was free at least from the cares and sorrows with which men embitter each other's existence. Here she would willingly live so long ...
— A Child's Book of Saints • William Canton
... I'm sorry, Ellen, for losing my temper. But it is only in Ireland that women submit themselves body and soul. It is extraordinary; ...
— The Untilled Field • George Moore
... down as a farmer, and managed to make enough to keep body and soul together. Perhaps one of the most sensible things he ever did was to marry Eugenie Laforge, the daughter of the mayor of Rimouski. She was a pretty girl, and had a nice little fortune, for money went further in those days than it does now; ...
— Marie Gourdon - A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence • Maud Ogilvy
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