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"He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit."
"I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give."
"Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?"
"The purpose of life is not to maintain personal comfort; it's to grow the soul."
"Once a decision is made to be tasteful and risk-free, all spark, soul, variety, sleaze, spontaneity and fun go right out the window"
"The language of soul. . . possesses a pronounced lyrical quality which is frequently incompatible to any music other than that ceaseless and relentlessly driving rhythm that flows from poignantly spent ideas."
"The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone."
"Education is soul crafting."
"Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven."
"He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein to incubate and he thought he knew what made one liable to its visitations. What he had not known was that it was mindless and so had no way to know the limits of those souls and what he feared was that there might be no limits."
"It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield."
"I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food."
"And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep."
"When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and self-denial have not realized true happiness, and the soul returns to the dictates of nature, the reaction is fearfully extravagant."
"I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul."
"I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul."
"No person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. We are all Face Dancers in our souls."
"[Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul."
"If the vessel of our soul is still tossed with winds and storms, let us awake the Lord, who reposes in it, and He will quickly calm the sea."
"That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him."
