| He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon. -- John Milton |
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Milton, JohnEra:
1608 |
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| False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. -- Socrates |
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SocratesEra:
-469 |
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| Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it. -- William Temple |
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Temple, WilliamEra:
1628 |
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| The soul is made of consciousness and mind; it is made of life and vision. It is made of the earth and the waters; it is made of air and space. It is made of light and darkness; it is made of desire and peace. It is made of anger and love; it is made of virtue and vice. It is made of all that is near; it is made of all that is afar. It is made of all. -- Upanishads |
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UpanishadsEra:
-800 |
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| How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! -- Robert Browning |
| Author:
Browning, RobertEra:
1812 |
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| What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man. -- Robert G. Ingersoll |
| Author:
Ingersoll, Robert G.Era:
1833 |
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| It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring it out. -- Alexander Pope |
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Pope, AlexanderEra:
1688 |
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| Meditation is the soul's perspective glass... -- Owen Feltham |
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Feltham, OwenEra:
1602 |
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| The universal medicine for the soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold. -- Albert Pike |
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Pike, AlbertEra:
1809 |
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| Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls. -- Voltaire |
| Author:
VoltaireEra:
1694 |
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| The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world...To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. -- John Ruskin |
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Ruskin, JohnEra:
1819 |
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| What is thought? It is not Matter, nor Spirit. It is not a Thing; but a Power and Force. I make upon a paper certain conventional marks, that represent that Thought. There is no Power or Virtue in the marks I write, but only in the Thought which they tell to others. I die, but the Thought still lives. It is a Power. The fact that Thought continues to exist an instant, after it makes its appearance in the soul, proves it immortal: for there is nothing conceivable that can destroy it. The spoken words, being mere sounds, may vanish into thin air, and the written ones,mere marks, be burned, erased, destroyed: but the THOUGHT itself lives still, and must live on forever. -- Albert Pike |
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Pike, AlbertEra:
1809 |
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| Every soul is subject to the trial of Transmigration...An individual does not know that he is called for assessment before entering this World as well as after leaving it. He does not know how many transformations and esoteric trials he has to pass through...and that souls revolve like a stone shot from a sling. -- Zohar |
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ZoharEra:
120 |
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| Men are great or small in stature as it pleases God. But their nature is great or small as it pleases themselves. Men are not born, some with great souls and some with little souls. One by taking thought cannot add to his stature, but he can enlarge his soul. By an act of the will he can make himself a moral giant, or dwarf himself to a pygmy. -- Albert Pike |
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Pike, AlbertEra:
1809 |
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| There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof. -- Jean Paul Richter |
| Author:
Richter, Jean PaulEra:
1763 |
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| There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. -- Frederick Faber |
| Author:
Faber, FrederickEra:
1814 |
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| Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. -- Jean Paul Richter |
| Author:
Richter, Jean PaulEra:
1763 |
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| The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. -- Pythagoras |
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PythagorasEra:
-582 |
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| War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul. -- Le Gallienne |
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Le GallienneEra:
1866 |
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| All souls must undergo transmigration and the souls of men revolve like a stone which is thrown from a sling, so many turns before the final release...Only those who have not completed their perfection must suffer the wheel of rebirth by being reborn into another human body. -- Zohar |
| Author:
ZoharEra:
120 |
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| The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. -- Cicero |
| Author:
CiceroEra:
-106 |
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| All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. -- Socrates |
| Author:
SocratesEra:
-469 |
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| Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality. -- Joaquin Miller |
| Author:
Miller, JoaquinEra:
1839 |
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| One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees. -- Bhagavad Gita |
| Author:
Gita, BhagavadEra:
-400 |
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| Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. -- Mark Twain |
| Author:
Twain, MarkEra:
1835 |
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| Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. -- Titus Maccius Plautus |
| Author:
Plautus, Titus MacciusEra:
-254 |
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| Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave. -- Chinese Proverb |
| Author:
Proverb, ChineseEra:
0 |
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| To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. -- Confucius |
| Author:
ConfuciusEra:
-551 |
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| Will is the dynamic soul-force. -- Sivananda |
| Author:
SivanandaEra:
1887 |
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| Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed, The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast. -- James Montgomery |
| Author:
Montgomery, JamesEra:
1771 |
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| Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will. -- Thomas Carlyle |
| Author:
Carlyle, ThomasEra:
1795 |
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| Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Author:
Longfellow, Henry WadsworthEra:
1807 |
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| Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world. -- The Talmud |
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Talmud, TheEra:
-500 |
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| What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. -- Marcus Aurelius |
| Author:
Aurelius, MarcusEra:
121 |
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| Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| Author:
Tennyson, Alfred LordEra:
1809 |
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| Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. -- Lord Chesterfield |
| Author:
Chesterfield, LordEra:
1694 |
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| Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. |
| Author:
Holmes Sr., Oliver WendellEra:
1809 |
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| A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs. -- Edward Young |
| Author:
Young, EdwardEra:
1683 |
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| As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present. -- Upanishads |
| Author:
UpanishadsEra:
-800 |
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| There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil. -- Clarence S. Darrow |
| Author:
Darrow, Clarence S.Era:
1857 |
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| Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. -- Adlai E. Stevenson |
| Author:
Stevenson, AdlaiEra:
1900 |
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| Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream. -- Francis Palgrave |
| Author:
Palgrave, FrancisEra:
1824 |
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| The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom. -- Thomas Hardy |
| Author:
Hardy, ThomasEra:
1840 |
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