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"A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit."
"Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth."
"Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant."
"I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ."
"Nature is the symbol of Spirit."
"Hoist the sails of your own spirit to catch the winds of God."
"God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous."
"We're all haunted in one way or another, are we not? If not by spirits, then by our own demons and regrets."
"Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason and their spirit the power of persisting in their pur"
"I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits"
"We shall be the mouthpieces of the divine spirit—"
"One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and wonderful, it is also, when you get right down to it, only human."
"I can't wait until I touch the stage, I'm going to catch the spirit and lose my mind."
"Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit."
"A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest."
"So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth."
"life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the temper, chears our spirits, and promotes health."
"No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will."
"[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations."
"Communities should be planned with an eye to the effect on the human spirit of being continually surrounded by a maximum of beauty."
