"Ah, the souls of those that die Are but sunbeams lifted higher."
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"The soul...is audible, not visible."
"Great souls suffer in silence."
"And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness."
"It is certain that the Jew, if he desired-or if they were driven to it, as the antisemites seem to wish-could now have the ascendancy, nay, literally the supremacy, over Europe; that they are not working or planning for that end is equally sure... The resourcefulness of the modern Jews, both in mind and soul, is extraordinary."
"Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite."
"The soul that feeds on books alone - I count that soul exceeding small That lives alone by book and creed, - A soul that has not learned to read."
"The soul may not be destroyed. The soul goes on forever. Like the number pi, it is without cessation or conclusion. Like pi it is a constant. Pi is an irrational number, incapable of being made into a fraction, impossible to divide from itself. So, too, the soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you."
"I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity."
"The folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul."
"The real question, after all, is not the quantity of life, but its quality, its depth, its purity, its fortitude, its fineness of spirit and gesture of soul."
"Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life."
"Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul."
"Responsibility is good for your soul"
"The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated Soul."
"Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making."
"The fates have given mankind a patient soul."
"The dog without his master was like a body without a soul."
"sometimes duties act on the soul like weeds on a flower. They crowd it out."
"If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself."