"Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear."
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"Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks."
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"Where souls do couch on flowers we'll hand in hand."
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"Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute."
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"I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires."
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"Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!"
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"While all the future, for thy purer soul, With "sober certainties" of love is blest."
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"A deep distress has humanised my soul."
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"Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought, And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion."
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"And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating strains,-alas! too few."
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"And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain."
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"This wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred. this monstrous product of former wrongs and shame."
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"The soul of freedom is deathless; it cannot, and will not perish."
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"At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender."
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"If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me, then for the sake of his soul I have got occasionally to knock him down."
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"Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they are set, and may thus be said to possess the souls of poets at the same time they display the coarser sense and the more vulgar sagacity of practical men of business."
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"I put my soul into every book I write."
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"Oh won't you stay Stay a while with your own ones Don't ever stray Stray so far from your own ones 'Cause the world is so cold Don't care nothing for your soul That you share with your own ones."
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"In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls."
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"A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they strengthen their souls."
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