"One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat."
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"she thought I could find a way to save her soul when she died and became an undead. Right now, I was just looking to find the rent money. I’d get to my roommate’s soul later."
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"The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul."
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"It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me."
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"Not all the subtilties of metaphysics can make me doubt a moment of the immortality of the soul, and of a beneficent Providence. I feel it, I believe it, I desire it, I hope it, and will defend it to my last breath."
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"Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth."
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"Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues; that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm."
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"The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable."
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"Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?"
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"What you want will pull like a magnet. Here's the other part. What for? Purpose is stronger than object. It's the 'What for?' that's even more powerful than the object. And the more you can describe in detail to stir the emotion and the intellect and the spirit and the soul, then the more powerful the 'what for' is."
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"To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit."
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"A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them."
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"We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation."
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"Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation."
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"From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery."
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"We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must strike it down because it threatens the overall quality and breadth of American literature."
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"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one."
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"And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels."
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"The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth."
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"Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of."
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