"Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent."
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"What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in quenchless flames of hell."
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"To be concerned with the issue; soul versus non-soul, is to be in bondage to craving for becoming and non-becoming."
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"Are you distracted by outward cares? Then allow yourself a space of quiet wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Avail yourself often, then, of this retirement, and so continually renew yourself."
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"Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within."
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"Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No, the impression comes from herself, and it is her own motions which affect her. As for the contingencies of fortune, they are either great or little, according to the opinion she has of her own strength."
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"Things themselves cannot touch the soul, not in the least degree, nor have they admission to the soul nor can they turn or move the soul: it turns and moves itself alone and whatever judgment it may think proper to make, such it makes by remaking for itself the things that present themselves to it"
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"The soul is often in the surface, and the importance of 'depth' is overestimated."
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"Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?"
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"The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease."
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"Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul."
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"Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion."
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"Standing up for what you believe in comes at a price but backing down exacts a toll that your soul never stops paying"
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"It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers."
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"Regarding the fitness craze: America has lost its soul; now it's trying to save its body."
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"To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned"
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"I loved my body and did not want it to perish; I loved my soul and did not want it to decay. I have fought to reconcile these two primordial forces."
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"Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a sharer in the vision of eternal truth. He becomes the spectator of his own tragedy; he sympathizes so much with the fury of the storm that he has no ears left for the shipwrecked sailor, though the sailor were his own soul. The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it."
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"My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule."
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"I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery."
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