"Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening"
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"The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords If when the soul unto the lines accords."
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"Through all ages, great saints have remained as living proof that this non-temporary, permanent state of God consciousness can be revived in all living souls."
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"It was a staggering moment when I first heard the news. Lennon was a most talented man and above all, a gentle soul. John and his colleagues set a high standard by which contemporary music continues to be measured."
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"The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty."
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"My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry."
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"The belly comes before the soul."
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"The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while the average human being is either drudging like an ox or shivering in fear of the secret police... How right [the working classes] are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!"
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"Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul."
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"The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit."
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"All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible."
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"The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . ."
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"Mediocrity cherishes rules; as for me, I hate them; I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd, a loathing which fills my soul, and it is in this respect perhaps that I understand martyrdom."
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"If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth."
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"He who wishes to see how the soul inhabits the body should look to see how that body uses its daily surroundings. If the dwelling is dirty and neglected, the body will be kept by its soul in the same condition, dirty and neglected."
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"Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall."
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"Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations."
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"Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul."
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"With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?"
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"The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound, and seen in every thing."
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