"Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity."
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"I smoke to fill the potholes in my soul"
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"Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul."
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"I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul"
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"When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her."
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"Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age."
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"This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven."
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"Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee."
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"If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon."
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"The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs."
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"What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul."
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"Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars."
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"It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again."
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"A strenuous soul hates cheap success."
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"If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect."
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"In the depth of the soul is the atman, the oversoul. And that oversoul is really love and compassion, peace, joy, and wisdom."
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"To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative."
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"In trees, I see expression and soul"
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"Hope, O my soul, hope. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a long one."
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"Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion."
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