"To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead."
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"In the end, we are not the roles we play. We are the light that animates every soul in the dance we call life."
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"...the reading, the observing, the living from day to day. It was something that had been born into her and her only - the something different from anyone else in the two families. It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life - the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike."
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"The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the most distressing of circumstances and most bitter environment."
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"Only the Lord Jesus can redeem the soul that is steeped in guilt and shame. This baggage weighs us down until we accept Jesus' gift-the gift that liberates souls from sin's power."
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"There is a vast difference between intellectual belief and the total conversion that saves the soul."
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"The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material."
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"We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem."
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"Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat."
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"The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God."
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"No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will."
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"Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing."
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"Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes have no soul, they are filled with distress."
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"I am a restless soul hungry perhaps wretched."
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"The National Bank at profit sells road maps for the soul."
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"If you go on a mission to preach the gospel with lightness and frivolity in your hearts, looking for this and that, and to learn what is in the world, and not having your minds riveted - yes, I may say riveted - on the cross of Christ, you will go and return in vain...Let your minds be centered on your missions, and labor earnestly to bring souls to Christ."
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"If I were to be responsible for guiding souls, I would urge everyone to be aware of God's constant presence, if for no other reason than His presence is a delight to our souls and spirit."
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"My soul is lost, my friend, tell me how do I begin again? My city's in ruins, my city's in ruins."
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"My aunty says I'm the double of my father. He was a workaholic, which I've definitely inherited. And like me, he could be the life and soul of the party, but also quite withdrawn."
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"Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous egotism."
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