Plutarch Quotes
Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt; but a truly noble and resolved Spirit appears greatest in Distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous.
Quotes to Explore
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There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically.
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We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.
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We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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By staying focused on what I intend to create, by believing that the universe is all-providing, and by knowing that I'm worthy of the unlimited beneficence of the Source of being, I just keep attracting prosperity to me.
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The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
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I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
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God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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Your spirit is your spirit, whether you're religious or whatever.
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If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.
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Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
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We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection.
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When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.
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Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.
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Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt; but a truly noble and resolved Spirit appears greatest in Distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous.
