"Your soul suffers if you live superficially."
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"My parents know how passionate I've always been about acting. I convinced them this was something that I was going to put my heart and soul into."
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"Some books are drenchèd sandsOn which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,Like a wrecked argosy."
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"A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world."
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"The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact, then it is not going too far to say that the souls of men are the gift from language to mankind. The account of the sixth day should be written: He gave them speech, and they became souls."
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"The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul."
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"Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my straight and narrow little path, and to worship at the feet of my Deity, and what more can a human soul ask for?"
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"When a woman feels the first grip of her child's dependence upon her, she has forever lost her freedom. If the child dies, a grave shackles her soul through life. If the child lives, the welfare of that child keeps perpetually between her and the sun."
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"All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality."
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"Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty."
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"I should like to bring a case to trial: Prosperity versus Beauty, Cash registers teetering in a balance against the comfort of the soul."
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"Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies."
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"He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that attacked the body. He had not studied the microbe of conscience which eats into the soul."
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"If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!"
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"One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time."
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"Yet, should thy darkest fears be true, If Heaven be so severe, That such a soul as thine is lost, Oh! how shall I appear?"
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"There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it."
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"Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul."
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"Oh, I know I'll improve. It's just that my life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes now. That's a sentence I read once, and I say it over to comfort myself in these times that try the soul."
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"My soul, how will I recognize you if we meet?"
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