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"Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul."
"What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?"
"After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be."
"Features, the great soul's apparent seat."
"The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars!"
"for Mercutio's soul Is but a little way above our heads, Staying for thine to keep him company: Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him."
"I stalk about her door, like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for waftage."
"I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul."
"By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if me my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive."
"My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief."
"There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell."
"Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings."
"You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead."
"Oh, God! I have an ill-divining soul!"
"ROMEO There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murders in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none. Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh. Come, cordial and not poison, go with me To Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee."
"Love and meekness, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition: Win straying souls with modesty again, Cast none away."
"Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit."
"Love denied blights the soul we owe to God."
"Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness."