"Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul."
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"The war is in our souls."
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"Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the colour and complexion of thought."
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"Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him."
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"Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts."
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"Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter."
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"Never forget that the universe is a single living organism possessed of one substance and one soul, holding all things suspended in a single consciousness and creating all things with a single purpose that they might work together spinning and weaving and knotting whatever comes to pass."
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"It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul."
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"If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more."
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"La solitude re tablit aussi bien les harmonies du corps que celles de l'a" me. Solitude restores the harmonies of the body no less than those of the soul."
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"So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture, Of its own essence parcel pure.-- From grave simplicities a dress, And reticent demureness, And love encinctured with reserve; Which the woven vesture would subserve. For outward robes in their ostents Should show the soul's habiliments. Therefore I say,--Thou'rt fair even so, But better Fair I use to know."
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"The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy."
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"The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love."
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"We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies."
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"The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul."
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"To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge."
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"I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand."
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"It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth."
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"Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises."
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"I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!"
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