"Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul."
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"O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty."
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"The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, - Or the most agonizing Spy - An Enemy - could send -"
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"The Loneliness One dare not sound -- And would as soon surmise AS in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain the size -- The Loneliness whose worst alarm Is lest itself should see -- And perish from before itself For just a scrutiny -- The Horror not to be surveyed -- But skirted in the Dark -- With Consciousness suspended -- And Being under Lock -- I fear me this -- is Loneliness -- The Maker of the soul Its Caverns and its Corridors Illuminate -- or seal"
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"Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise."
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"I'm not advocating the strenuous life for everyone or trying to say it's the choice form of life. Anyone who's had the luck or misfortune to be an athlete has to keep his body in shape. The body and mind are closely coordinated. Fattening of the body can lead to fattening of the mind. I would be tempted to say that it can lead to fattening of the soul, but I don't know anything about the soul."
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"My dog keeps looking at me as if he knows my secret, as if he and he alone can see my soul. That or he wants this pork chop."
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"It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo 's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls."
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"These dwell among the blackest souls,loaded down deep by sins of differing types.If you sink far enough,you'll see them all."
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"Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else. Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things. Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life."
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"Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows."
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"A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being."
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"We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul."
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"Meditation is all about connecting with your soul. Part of maintaining your well-being is taking the time to disconnect from the outside to go within."
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"Never forget that you are not in the world; the world is in you. When anything happens to you, take the experience inward. Creation is set up to bring you constant hints and clues about your role as co-creator. Your soul is metabolizing experience as surely as your body is metabolizing food"
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"We transform our relationships when we listen with our ears, hearts, and souls."
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"Your face is my heart Sassenach, and the love of you is my soul"
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"I've always been something these labels can't buy, especially if they tryna take a piece of my soul."
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"Yes, well, let me tell you that if nobody had ever learned to quote, very few people would be in love with La Rochefoucauld. I bet you I don't know ten souls who read him without a middleman."
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"Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul."
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