"The spirits run riot in youth."
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"Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies."
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"A human spirit may find no insufficiency of food fit for it, even in the Custom House."
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"It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought."
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"The New Testament is a commentary on the Old Testament, in the light of the new revelation given by Christ and the Holy Spirit."
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"Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that thespirit is after all happy to discover, for without habit and reduced to its own resources, the spirit would be unable to make any lodgings seem habitable."
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"Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty."
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"It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances."
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"Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within."
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"On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality."
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"The mission of this government is much more than the promotion of economic progress. It is to renew the spirit and solidarity of the nation."
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"I'm always curious about what happens when we die. And I'd like to think that somehow the spirit goes on. I'd rather not think that it's just about this."
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"Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits."
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"It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush."
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"The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously toward an idea of extension of boundaries."
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"I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have always been. I feel that, besides me, above me, spirits live, and that in this world there is truth."
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"There are many faiths, but the spirit is one."
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"I have nothing to make me miserable," she said, getting calmer; "but can you understand that everything has become hateful, loathsome, coarse to me, and I myself most of all? You can't imagine what loathsome thoughts I have about everything." "Why, whatever loathsome thoughts can you have?" asked Dolly, smiling. "The most utterly loathsome and coarse; I can't tell you. It's not unhappiness, or low spirits, but much worse. As though everything that was good in me was all hidden away, and nothing was left but the most loathsome."
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"A holy spirit lives within you."
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"To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried."
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