"There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment."
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"Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter."
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"The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty."
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"Who says soul has only one colour?"
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"Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body."
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"Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement."
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"Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls."
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"People in love look into each other's souls, and it is that feeling that I try to capture when I sing."
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"The eyes that see the soul are different from the eyes that see the self. We see soul when we are in the mystery. We see self when we are in the events. The coach must have eyes for both."
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"Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age."
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"No divine terror will ever be found in the work of the man who wastes a colossal strength in elaborating toys; for the first lesson that terror is sent to teach us is, the value of the human soul, and the shortness of mortal time."
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"Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them."
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"We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love."
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"Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards, And seal the hushed Casket of my Soul."
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"Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in heaven too, Double-lived in regions new?"
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"O for ten years, that I may overwhelm / Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed / That my own soul has to itself decreed."
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"The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart."
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"All birth means separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew. The return into the All, the dissolution of painful individuation, the reunion with God means the expansion of the soul until it is able once more to embrace the All."
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"For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it"
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"Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave."
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