"O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible."
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"The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below."
"There is one and the same soul in many bodies."
"The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it."
"...became a woman who learned her own skin and dug into her soul and found it full."
"Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know."
"It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul."
"Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal."
"The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth."
"The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily."
"On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul."
"The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against one, you can feel the vibration from the wires deep within the wood, as if souls had been imprisoned in there and were struggling to get out."
"Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish."
"What is planted in each person's soul will sprout."
"A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul"
"The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies"
"It enables me to go to bed with an enriching feeling in my soul and the belief that I am changing myself."
"I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts."
"Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral."
"My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not got enough of them-that is not the reason-but the reason is, because they are not things proportionable to that immortal soul of yours that is capable of God himself."