Soul Quotes
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A nation has a soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the possession of a rich legacy of memories; the other is the desire to live together and to value the common heritage.
Ernest Renan
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The love of God has been described as the highest, noblest, strongest kind of love and the most joyous to the soul.
Bonnie L. Oscarson
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It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
Plotinus
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Persistence is the soul of a champion.
Alan Webb
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Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.
Virginia Woolf
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All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his soul that suicide, though a way out, is rather a mean and shabby one, and that it is nobler and finer to be conquered by life than to fall by one's own hand.
Hermann Hesse
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A few little flowers will spring up briefly in the dry gulley through which torrents of water pass occasionally. But it is steady streams that bring thick and needed crops. In the agriculture of the soul that has to do with nurturing attributes, flash floods are no substitute for regular irrigation.'
Neal A. Maxwell
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Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him Whom the Angels serve.
Agnes of Rome
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My wails of sorrow are tormenting my soul
Rumi
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Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it. When I reach the soul of one of my boys with an idea, or ideal, or vision, then I have done my job as a coach.
Amos Alonzo Stagg
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Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind or smoke, and saying it moreover in tones of pride and satisfaction? Is this then something to be said gaily? Is it not on the contrary something to be said sadly, as being the saddest thing in the world?
Blaise Pascal
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God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope or courage. Pear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Every building must have... its own soul.
Louis Kahn
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Love is the language of the soul when it is not colored by emotion, ego, or attachment.
Alan Finger
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There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
Alexandre Dumas
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The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body.
Plato
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The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.
Brother Lawrence
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Saturday morning, you knew what was cool by what was on 'Soul Train.'
Nick Cannon
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We have no evidence whatsoever that the soul perishes with the body.
Mahatma Gandhi
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When therefore the first spark of a desire after God arises in thy soul, cherish it with all thy care, give all thy heart into it; it is nothing less than a touch of the divine loadstone, that is to draw thee out of the vanity of time, into the riches of eternity.
William Law
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It is not sin that kills the soul, but impenitence.
Joseph Hall
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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
Jesse Jackson
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I never had faith that the answers to human problems lay in anything that could be called political. I thought the answers, if there were answers, lay someplace in man's soul.
Joan Didion