"When God sends his angel to the soul it becomes the one who knows for sure."
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"God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as He is rational, God is nowhere so properly as in the soul - in the innermost of the soul"
"Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well."
"Consumers are time constrained, budget restricted and less loved than they would like. Give them a wonderful experience and they will share it. Capture their soul and win big time."
"The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness."
"It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again."
"Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance."
"To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is our own."
"Only he can judge of matters great and high whose soul is likewise."
"Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases; being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition."
"The recognition of virtue is not less valuable from the lips of the man who hates it, since truth forces him to acknowledge it; and though he may be unwilling to take it into his inmost soul, he at least decks himself out in its trappings."
"Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul; you must also toughen up his muscles."
"For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom."
"There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine."
"The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly."
"It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again."
"As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies from the high and lively agitations of our souls."
"Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival."
"Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty."
"The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings."