"The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue."
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"Everything is the same spirit watching itself through the eyes of different observers."
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"When you perceive yourself as spirit, you will not simply feel love - you will BE love."
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"My intent is to be generous of spirit and live with total integrity every day of my life."
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"When love and spirit are brought together, their power can accomplish anything. Then love, power, and spirit are one."
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"He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit."
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"Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation."
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"A life touched by the Holy Spirit will tolerate sin no longer."
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"I know God is in charge. Not me, I'm nothing. I wouldn't be anything except for the power of the spirit of God."
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"Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one great passion."
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"The 'renewed' mind is the canvas on which the Spirit of God can paint."
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"Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included."
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"Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind."
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"Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources."
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"She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it."
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"My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty."
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"We manifest from Spirit. When Spirit begins to rule in our lives, we can literally manifest or attract to us everything that we perceive to be missing. That's really the essence of it."
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"Extremity is the trier of spirits."
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"And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts."
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"There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with't"
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