"He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."
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"Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person."
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"In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up."
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"Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be spirit, the middle spirit, the culmination spirit."
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"Deep in the HEART every mystery of spirit is hidden."
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"Don't be fooled by my beauty - the light of my face comes from the candle of my spirit."
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"The water has a Water that is driving it; The spirit has a Spirit that is Calling it."
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"Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic"
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"Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them."
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"Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations"
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"Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest."
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"How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value."
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"Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce."
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"Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous."
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"The angels are ministering spirits; they are not governing spirits."
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"It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward."
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"When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others."
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"He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust."
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"Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there."
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"There is One Infinite Spirit and every time man says, "I am" he proclaims it."
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