"How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great."
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"Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body."
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"If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman"
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"But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend."
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"'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth."
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"My soul is too glad and too great to be at heart the enemy of any man"
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"True sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul."
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"Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?"
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"The consumer today is the victim of the manufacturer who launches on him a regiment of products for which he must make room in his soul."
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"Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear."
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"The careful rearer of the ductile human plant can instil his own religion, and surround the soul by such a moral atmosphere, as shall become to its latest day the air it breathes."
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"Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count -- / Festival of the Souls."
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"It is the place of renewal and of safety, where for a little while there will be no harm or attack and, while every sense is nourished, the soul rests."
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"I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it."
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"Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement."
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"I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get Mayer Hawthorne."
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"I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper."
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"A lot of people think I live in a soul bubble."
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"Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from Him. I cannot fully praise nor love Him therefore must I die, and cast myself into the divine void, till I rise from non-existence to existence."
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"For then I knew my soul - every soul - has always held Him."
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