Spirit Quotes
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How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.
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Maybe all spirits flew to Paris, not only French ones. Could you haunt a place you'd never been?
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Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.
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And it is to rock the soul and lead the person to immorality, corruption - to forget their prayers, to forget their God. And thus the world has partaken of the spirit of the Negro race, accepting their ways.
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But I may say Dame Fortune has been very kind to me by endowing me with the genius of poetry. I remember how I felt when I received the spirit of poetry. It was in the year of 1877.
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Christmas is not just a day, an event to be observed and speedily forgotten. It is a spirit which should permeate every part of our lives.
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The valley spirit never dies. It is called the mystical female.
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Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can't contain Him. Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?
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Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.
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Oh, bring again my heart's content, Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!
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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.
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Be Strong, Gentle and Beautiful, in Mind, Body and Spirit.
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And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.
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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
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Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.
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Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman coloured ill.
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All that happens in the world of Nature or Man, - every war; every peace; every hour of prosperity; every hour of adversity; every election; every death ; every life; every success and every failure, - all change, - all permanence, - the perished leaf; the unutterable glory of stars, - all things speak truth to the thoughtful spirit.
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Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit.
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A man who worships in Spirit and Truth no longer honors the Creator because of His works, but praises Him because of Himself.
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Personally I do not believe in a national agency devoted only to the negro blind because in spirit and principle I am against all segregation, and the blind already have difficulties enough without being cramped and harassed by social barriers.
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I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don’t want to.
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Be genuinely grateful for the success of others. A generous spirit is the surest sign of a kind heart.
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The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.
