"In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown."
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"For, rightly, every man is a channel through which heaven floweth, and, whilst I fancied I was criticising him, I was censuring orrather terminating my own soul."
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"The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth."
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"No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All."
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"It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow; for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day."
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"All things are known to the soul."
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"A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he stands to all beholders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun, and whoso journeys towards the sun, journeys towards that person. He is thus the medium of the highest influence to all who are not on the same level."
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"Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing."
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"There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain."
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"None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed."
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"The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual, and therefore superficial. The earth, and the heavenly bodies, physics, and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent; but these are the retinue of that Being we have."
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"Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,--is not that mine? His wit,--if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit."
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"The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict."
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"Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one."
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"The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned."
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"The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted."
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"Wait, and thy soul shall speak."
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"It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern."
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"When he has seen, that it is not his, nor any man's, but it is the soul which made the world, and that it is all accessible to him, he will know that he, as its minister, may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it."
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"Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole."
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