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"I think what saved me is me being honest. I think I somewhow had the courage to do something and say something that I knew would possibly end my career. Instead of making business more important I made my soul and my life more important. And I think by being truthful, and being honest, that saved me."
"The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more."
"Narcotics cannot still the tooth. That Nibbles at the soul"
"There is a solitude of space. A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that profounder site-that polar privacy. A soul admitted to itself--Finite infinity."
"What fortitude the Soul contains, That it can so endure The accent of a coming Foot- The opening of a Door."
"Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?"
"He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction, a look of hatred unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles that will not, like those of other people, interpret the language of his soul."
"That is how I'm loved! Well, never mind. That is not my Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he's in my soul."
"Somewhere in my soul a thought went up in my mind today that I have had before, but did not finish, some way back, I could not fix the year. Nor where it went, nor why it came the second time to me, nor definetly what it was, have I the art to say. But somewhere in my soul, I know I've met the thing before; it just reminded me-' twas all'-and came my way no more."
"... And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, again, Then space began to toll."
"The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty."
"Redemption through the Cross is worse than damnation, because of the terrible burden it imposes upon humanity, because of the effect it has on the human soul, fettering and paralyzing it with the weight of the burden exacted through the death of Christ."
"True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul."
"The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth."
"If thou rememberest that God standeth by to behold and visit all that thou doest; whether in the body or in the soul, thou surely wilt not err in any prayer or deed; and thou shalt have God to dwell with thee."
"Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul."
"The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and generous of its store, that injures not, neither destroys."
"Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls."
"Haie! Haie! These were the swift to harry; These the keen-scented; These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid the leash-men!"
"A man without passion would be like a body without a soul. Or even more grotesque, like a soul without a body."
