"In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight."
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"Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired."
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"His native home deep imag'd in his soul."
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"And rest at last where souls unbodied dwell, In ever-flowing meads of Asphodel."
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"Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality."
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"Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin."
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"So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein - more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation."
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"There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity."
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"There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know."
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"If the seal is pressed completely through the wax so that no wax remains without being impressed by the seal, then it becomes indistinguishably one with the seal. Similarly the soul becomes completely united with God."
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"When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls."
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"Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul."
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"I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony."
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"Soul of fibre and heart of oak."
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"It's just what I'm born to do, I'm born to entertain people. I could do it for thirty-thousand people or three people, it's just what I know how to do. My soul objective only is for me to have the audience say 'when's the next time I can see him?' That's what I do."
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"And I would stop and take you in, all of you, and when our eyes lock we'd just stare into each other's souls and all of the lost time would come out in the shape of a big smile, a few tears and a tight hug that feels like...I don't know, it would feel like home."
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"Words are like bodies; meanings are like souls."
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"Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God."
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"We cannot separate our lives from the Eucharist; the moment we do, something breaks. People ask, 'Where do the sisters get the joy and the energy to do what they are doing?' The Eucharist involves more than just receiving; it also involves satisfying the hunger of Christ. He says, 'Come to Me.' He is hungry for souls."
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"The very fact that God has placed a certain soul in our way is a sign that God wants us to do something for him or her. It is not chance; it has been planned by God. We are bound by conscience to help him or her."
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