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John Donne Poet, Cleric
Soul

"Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The mystery, the sign you must not touch, For 'tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone, Will leave this to control, And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution."

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John Donne Poet, Cleric
Soul

"That soul that can reflect upon itself, consider itself, is more than so."

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John Donne Poet, Cleric
Soul

"That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies."

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John Donne Poet, Cleric
Soul

"Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it."

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John Ruskin Art Critic, Writer
Soul

"You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye."

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John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist
Soul

"The warfare between the unaroused male and female is constant and ferocious. Each blames the other for his loss of soul."

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John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist
Soul

"He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. It meant that Kino would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea. Juana, in her woman's soul, knew that the mountain would stand while the man broke himself; that the sea would surge while the man drowned in it. And yet it was this thing that made him a man, half insane and half god, and Juana had need of a man; she could not live without a man."

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John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist
Soul

"The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite."

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Jose James Musician, Singer
Soul

"I've sort of realized there's a definite pattern to my output at this point: there's an album that everybody sort of loves, that's a real balance between the old and new, like The Dreamer or No Beginning No End, like a blend of jazz and hip-hop, or r&b and soul and hip-hop."

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Jose James Musician, Singer
Soul

"The other songs [of Billie Holiday] - "Body and Soul" is like the standard - I also wanted some songs that I knew I would sound good on, as a producer. It's been the same nine songs since I debuted it back in 2012."

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