"And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets."
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"From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life's burdens."
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"The soul has to find and hold its ground against hostile forces, sometimes embodied in ideas which frequently deny its very existence, and which indeed often seem to be trying to annul it altogether."
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"Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos -- art, not politics, is the remedy."
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"The great soul of this world is just."
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"How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?"
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"I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul."
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"To become attached to the experience of peace is to threaten the true and essential and vital union of our soul with God above sense and experience in the darkness of a pure and perfect love."
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"Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise."
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"When I was a kid, I liked the newer music that was coming out. I have never really felt confined by any style of music. I would play in bands that were soul bands or that played standards - any kind of music that I enjoyed playing."
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"I'm not confident about my appearance, I'm not confident about anything really in my life, I'm a very tortured soul when it comes to self-confidence, but when it comes to my pop songs, if I started to question, I would never stop questioning."
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"If you walk with Jesus, he's gonna save your soul. You gotta keep the devil way down in the hole. He's got the fire and the fury at his command."
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"The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations."
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"The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter."
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"Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger."
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"Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable."
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"Thought is the soul of act."
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"May new sufferings torment your soul."
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"But this we know, the obstacle that checked And tripped the body, shot the spirit on Further than target ever showed or shone."
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"My mum taught me to have a soul."
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