Thomas Dewar Quotes
Confessions may be good for the soul but they are bad for the reputation.
Thomas Dewar
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Ferdinand Foch
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When your mind is fully withdrawn in superconsciousness, it becomes centered in the bliss of the spine. You are then in your ideational, or causal, body. That is the level of the soul.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach!
Oriana Fallaci
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When death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for a couple of hours; for the soul should be given time to fight for itself, and to go up to judgment.
Lady Gregory
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These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.
Felix Mendelssohn
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Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Samuel Johnson
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Woman's soul is present and lives more intensely in all parts of the body, and it is inwardly affected by that which happens to the body; whereas, with men, the body has more pronoucedly the character of an instrument which serves them in their work and which is accompanied by a certain detachment.
Edith Stein
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Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul-this is the miser’s curse-this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.
John Lancaster Spalding
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O charitable philosopher, I beg you to help me. My mind is weak but my soul is strong. Kindle that soul, and the sacred fire shall never be extinguished.
James Boswell
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I believe in a set of values I cannot live by.
Isabella Rossellini
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What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Since everyone hath every one, one shade, And you, but one, can every shadow lend. Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit Is poorly imitated after you. On Helen’s cheek all art of beauty set, And you in Grecian tires are painted new. Speak of the spring and foison of the year; The one doth shadow of your beauty show, The other as your bounty doth appear, And you in every blessèd shape we know. In all external grace you have some part, But you like none, none you, for constant heart.
William Shakespeare
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Confessions may be good for the soul but they are bad for the reputation.
Thomas Dewar
