"Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him."
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"The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls."
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"The universe is but one vast Symbol of God."
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"Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too, a breath of God, bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded!"
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"Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get."
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"Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise."
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"Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul."
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"Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God."
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"To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that it understands all things but itself."
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"Hawaii made the mouth of her soul water."
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"A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated."
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"Anybody who's ever mattered, anybody who's ever been happy, anybody who's ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions."
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"It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul."
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"The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love."
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"Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters."
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"The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul."
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"Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just."
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"prayer consists of attention. It is the orientation of all the attention of which the soul is capable towards God. The quality of the attention counts for much in the quality of the prayer. Warmth of heart cannot make up for it."
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"Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled!"
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"I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on."
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