"Nature is the difference between the soul and God."
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"Real soup is to the body what peace is to the soul."
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"He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul."
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"The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul."
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"To them that ask: Where hast thou seen the Gods, or how knowest thou certainly that there be Gods, that thou art so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it."
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"It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way."
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"If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure."
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"The life of the soul is incalculable."
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"Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates."
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"The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease."
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"The health of the soul is as precarious as that of the body; for when we seem secure from passions, we are no less in danger of their infection than we are of falling ill when we appear to be well."
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"Moderation cannot have the credit of combatiug and subduing ambition, they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and indolence of the soul, as ambition is its activity and ardor."
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"I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff."
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"The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls."
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"I feel the flame of eternity in my soul."
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"We can drift along with general opinion and tradition, or we can throw ourselves upon the guidance of the soul within and steer courageously toward truth... We have a choice in every event and every limitation and....to choose is to create."
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"We don't, as a collective life on this planet, all get groovy together or all sink into ignorance together. One by one we liberate our souls, our individual souls, from the cycle by our own realizations."
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"When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage! An invisible and all-powerful enemy—some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed."
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"The soul of the artist cannot remain hidden."
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"Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired."
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