"You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone."
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"Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister"
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"There is soul music, soul food, and soul love."
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"It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance"
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"Prayer is you speaking to God. Meditation is allowing the spirit to speak to you."
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"Seeing yourself with the eyes of love makes it natural to see the Divine Spirit in everyone you meet."
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"I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee."
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"The spirit of truth will do more to bring persons to light and knowledge, than flowery words."
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"All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit."
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"Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it"
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"The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God."
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"The quintessential revolution is that of spirit. Without this, the forces which produce the inequalities of the old order will continue to operate."
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"I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him."
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"Writing in my journal keeps me focused on my spirit and what I need or feel."
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"I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes."
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"Glendower: I can call the spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come, when you do call for them?"
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"Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace."
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"I have never come away from you without reflecting that the Spirit of God and His holy workings reside in you."
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"The hour that burst the spirit's sleep."
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"This kind of intense loyalty, then, became the well-spring of the IBM spirit, the family spirit as it was called."
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