"Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit."
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"To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions."
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"For the most part, the best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave."
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"There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can."
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"Greece is the home of the gods; they may have died but their presence still makes itself felt. The gods were of human proportion: they were created out of the human spirit."
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"My fighting spirit has often seemed out of place."
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"With every anguish of our earthly part The spirit's sight grows clearer."
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"Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought."
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"I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No."
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"A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents."
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"Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?"
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"Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!"
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"What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they."
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"The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes."
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"He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink."
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"I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus walketh he as spirit over the bridge."
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"The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit."
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"You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable. You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons. Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing."
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"For truth and the spirit will abide with the morrow."
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"The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk."
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