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"Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank traced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives."
"One must think with the body and the soul or not think at all."
"We may know that the work we continue to put off doing will be bad. Worse, however, is the work we never do. A work that’s finished is at least finished. It may be poor, but it exists, like the miserable plant in the lone flowerpot of my neighbour who’s crippled. That plant is her happiness, and sometimes it’s even mine. What I write, bad as it is, may provide some hurt or sad soul a few moments of distraction from something worse. That’s enough for me, or it isn’t enough, but it serves some purpose, and so it is with all of life."
"LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy."
"Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify."
"He whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious."
"I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty."
"Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul."
"...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering has penetrated his soul."
"The stars, that in their courses roll, Have much instruction given; But Thy good Word informs my soul How I may climb to Heaven."
"Nothing in this world is more inspiring than a soul up against crippling circumstances who carries it off with courage and faith and undefeated character-nothing! See Light From Many Lamps, edited by L. E. Watson, article by H. E. Fosdick, pp. 93-94 re: a serious cripple who succeeded."
"Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it."
"The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality."
"Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves."
"The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft."
"You can't find the soul with a scalpel."
"The greater the man's soul, the deeper he loves."
"I believe we are reincarnated. You, I, we reincarnate over and over. We live many lives, and store up much experience. Some are older souls than others and so they know more. It seems to be an intuitive "gift." It is really hard-won experience."
"Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul."
"Time is the life of the soul."
