"Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices."
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"Maintain a constant watch at all times against a dogmatical spirit: fix not your assent to any proposition in a firm and unalterable manner, till you have some firm and unalterable ground for it, and till you have arrived at some clear and sure evidence."
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"The true spirit of Christmas is love"
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"Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!"
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"People look to me to see what the spirit of the Seventies is."
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"Whatever you attempt, go at it with spirit."
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"When we really want to master anything, we must enter into the spirit of it. And when we enter into the spirit of something, what we're really doing is reproducing in ourselves the same qualities that whoever created it had."
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"A human being is a spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation."
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"While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of them, if you must make at all. The only imperative that nature utters is, 'Look. Listen. Attend."
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"Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit."
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"My body gnaws at me from one side and my spirit gnaws at me from the other."
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"Living for Christ is a day-to-day going on with Him. It is a continuous dependence upon the Spirit of God. It is believing in His faithfulness."
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"You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love."
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"Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won."
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"The body is a device to calculate the astronomy of the spirit. Look through that astrolabe and become oceanic."
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"Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within."
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"Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony."
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"A gift that cannot be given away ceases to be a gift. The spirit of a gift is kept alive by its constant donation."
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"Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit."
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"Go on with a spirit that fears nothing."
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