Soul Quotes
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All things in the world of Nature are not controlled by Fate for the soul has a principle of its own.
Iamblichus
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The last thing a drunkard loses, you see, is his cunning: it outlasts his soul by a long season.
Tad Williams
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I've always been a bit of a lost soul, and I think that goes back to me being adopted and not knowing my roots.
Finn Jones
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What we need now is the greatest generation of young adults in the history of the Church. We need your whole heart and soul. In other words, it's time to raise the bar not only for missionaries but also for returned missionaries and for your entire generation.
M. Russell Ballard
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Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
Martin Luther
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Each hour until we meet is as a birdThat wings from far his gradual way alongThe rustling covert of my soul.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Just as the plurality of the human soul's life of imagination, feeling, and will has a focus, a center, around which it orders and orientates itself, so also does the multiplicity of the appearances of the world have ONE center, which orders and holds everything together.
Valentin Tomberg
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By suns unsettling kist. Out through the utmost gates of space, Past where the gray stars drift, To the widening Infinite, my soul Glides on, a vessel swift, Yet loses not her anchorage In yonder azure rift.
Lucy Larcom
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Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul,An' risen up earth's greatest nation.
James Russell Lowell
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Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.
Oscar Wilde
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The real business of your life as a saved soul is intercessory prayer.
Oswald Chambers
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It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
William Dean Howells
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It is certain that if God is to be born in the soul it must turn back to eternity…. It must turn in toward itself with all is might, must recall itself, and concentrate all its faculties within itself, the lowest as well as the highest. All its dissipated powers must be gathered up into one, because unity is
Johannes Tauler
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Alexander Pope
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Every mother and daughter should make time for a trip together. It's good for the soul.
Anne Robinson
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare
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If I tell a man he needs to quit his soul-sucking job, he has to go home and fight with his wife or fight with his parents and fight with his in-laws and fight with everybody, because men aren't supposed to be happy; they're supposed to do well.
Martha Beck
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The fight in Ireland has been one for the soul of a race – that Irish race which with seven centuries of defeat behind it still battled for the sanctity of its dwelling place.
James Connolly
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Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.
William Kennedy
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I think [imagination] very austere element of Buddhism is also linked with a strong antinatalist strain in the philosophy. The Buddha was enlightened when he destroyed the house of body and soul into which he would otherwise have been forever reborn. This is clearly antinatalism.
Quentin S. Crisp
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I'd really like to visit India and South America. I think India will be a great mix of sightseeing and relaxing, and I've got a feeling it will also be good for one's soul and spirit. And I'd love to go backpacking around South America at some point. I did that in Australia when I was younger, and the camaraderie was great fun.
Emilia Fox
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Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business.
Joanne Rowling
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The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
John Calvin
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We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
Aristotle