"I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit."
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"Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form."
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"Sweet Spirit, grant us the faith to resist our resistance to Thee!"
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"It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms."
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"In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness."
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"The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality."
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"What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit."
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"Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling."
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"A splendour of miscellaneous spirits."
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"But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh."
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"Dad trusted people based on their spirit and their handshake."
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"There is a spirit in all music, the spirit has the ability to conjure up thoughts even pictures of something that happened or you wished would happen or you anticipate happening. Music has the ability to create ideas in you and me. It has the ability to encourage us to be creative."
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"Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love"
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"The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new rule."
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"A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic."
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"The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body."
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"Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness."
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"Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby A sepulchre for its eternity."
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"I'm a free spirit - unfortunately for some."
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"Observe the silence between your thoughts, actions, reactions, and you will feel the presence of spirit in the stillness of those spaces."
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