"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul."
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"The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness."
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"In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present."
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"We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are."
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"Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer."
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"Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop."
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"The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain."
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"A beautiful soul always dwells in a beautiful world."
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"I'm ensconced in the soul … and I look around and everything is love."
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"I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. To love their souls, I have to identify with my own soul."
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"Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come."
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"The content of the dialogue with 'the Other' is a content that indicates that man's horizons are infinitely bright, that death is in fact, well, as Thomas Vaughn put it, 'the body is the placenta of the soul'"
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"Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires."
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"Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls."
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"I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded."
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"I believe that God is carrying us whether we know it or not and is always present. I love what C.S. Lewis said - "You don't have a soul, you are a soul. You have a body.""
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"I believe that God is carrying us whether we know it or not and is always present. I've always wanted my life and my work to be something that was letting my soul participate with the souls of others. I have really felt that process (with) this picture."
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"The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body."
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"And it is in this darkness, when there is nothing left in us that can please or comfort our own minds, when we seem to be useless and worthy of all contempt, when we seem to have failed, when we seem to be destroyed and devoured, it is then that the deep and secret selfishness that is too close to us for us to identify is stripped away from our souls. It is in this darkness that we find liberty. It is in this abandonment that we are made strong. This is the night which empties us and makes us pure."
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"There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude."
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