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"When all is said and done, how do we know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey."
"All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability. Propositions, for instance, which set all the truth upon one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain, if they can enter at all, and sooner or later the mind expels them by instinct."
"I gave what other women gave That stepped out of their clothes But when this soul, its body off Naked to naked goes, He it has found shall find therein What none other knows."
"Death and life were not Till man made up the whole, Made lock, stock and barrel Out of his bitter soul"
"The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic body."
"But petitional prayer is only one department of prayer; and if we take the word in the wider sense as meaning every kind of inward communion or conversation with the power recognized as divine, we can easily see that scientific criticism leaves it untouched. Prayer in this wide sense is the very soul and essence of religion."
"The states of consciousness are all that psychology needs to do her work with. Metaphysics or theology may prove the Soul to exist; but for psychology the hypothesis of such a substantial principle of unity is superfluous."
"Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of the world's literature has been devoted to its analysis. It's therefore of some importance."
"I hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?"
"Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory."
"But jealous souls will not be answered so, They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they're jealous. 'Tis a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself."
"I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear."
"Hang there like fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!"
"There is no creature loves me; And if I die, no soul will pity me."
"Well, God's above all; and there be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved."
"By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers."
"If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul."
"Before, I loved thee as a brother, John, But now, I do respect thee as my soul."
"Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Brevity is the soul of wit"
"Good God, the souls of all my tribe defend From jealousy!"
