"The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps."
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"I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personalrelations. But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such disparaging words. For persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts."
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"Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul."
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"The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other."
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"It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos."
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"You're afraid, you will just keep making the fear. If you want to change it, you change from your soul."
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"Your soul will be blessed, Sister, if you bear patiently the troubles of mind and body His Providence sends you, or which come to you from within and without."
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"If we do not use great care to mortify our will, there are many things which can deprives us of the holy freedom of spirit that we are seeking in order to fly more freely to our Creator, without always being bogged down with the clay of this earth. Moreover, there can never be solid virtue in a soul that is attached to its own will."
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"What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?"
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"I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires."
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"Sir, I would trust you with my heart. Moreover, we have left our bodies in the banqueting hall. Those on the turf are the shadows of our souls."
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"I commend my soul to any god that can find it."
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"Whatever his secret was, I have learnt one secret too, and namely: that the soul is but a manner of being - not a constant state - that any soul may be yours, if you find and follow its undulations. The hereafter may be the full ability of consciously living in any chosen soul, in any number of souls, all of them unconscious of their interchangeable burden."
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"It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made."
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"The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable"
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"The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul."
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"Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because it is not in a sensitive potency in which are all passions. Nor is it a habit, because a habit is removed with difficulty; charity, however, is easily lost through one act of mortal sin. Therefore charity is not something created in the soul."
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"The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things."
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"The servants of God...whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul."
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"...there is no old age of the soul."
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