"Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality."
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"Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness."
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"Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work."
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"[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
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"I said I was ready to die recently, and I think I was exaggerating.That declaration of readiness, no matter what the outcome, that's a part of everyone's soul."
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"Lose the world, get lost in it, and find your soul."
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"These were choice documents to me... They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my mind, and died away for want of utterance."
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"I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul."
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"The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude."
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"The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate."
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"The lemonade is weak, like your soul."
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"Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls."
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"Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... The pathways of the most various philosophical modes of life lead back to him... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect."
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"It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself."
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"Love descends upon our souls by the will of God and not by the demand or the plea of the individual."
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"Your body is the harp of the soul."
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"The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness."
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"Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls."
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"There is my favorite quote that I ever heard from her [Lori Petty],... 'Things can happen to you, but they don't have to happen to your soul.'"
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"Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul."
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