"Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body."
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"When the soul is ruffled by the remains of one passion, it is more disposed to entertain a new one than when it is entirely curedand at rest from all."
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"The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another."
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"What renders us so changeable in our friendship is, that it is difficult to know the qualities of the soul, but easy to know those of the mind."
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"I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul."
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"I can only stand to sit in front of my computer for three or four hours a day. Otherwise it can get really soul-sucking."
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"If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation!"
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"My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt."
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"I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you."
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"Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard."
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"This souls'prison we call England."
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"It's difficult enough for a young person to put his soul on the line in front of a lot of drunken people without having that hanging over his head, too."
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"Souls live on in perpetual echoes."
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"Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit."
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"The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself."
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"and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony."
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"Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope."
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"The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes."
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"For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving with kindred natures in the same embroiled medium, the same troublous fitfully-illuminated life."
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"Strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns to spend their strength In farthest striving action; breathe more free In mighty anguish than in trivial ease."
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