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• A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.

  Epictetus

  Sweet, Rich, Virtue

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

  Jessamyn West

  Success, Men, Want

  Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt

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• This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and all th'ethereal powers, All secrets of the deep, all nature's works, Or works of God in heav'n, air, earth, or sea, And all the riches of this world enjoy'dst, And all the rule, one empire; onlyadd Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come called charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far.

  John Milton

  Patience, Stars, Sea

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 12, l. 581

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• It's the one who won't be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

  Bette Midler

  Dance, Fear, Philosophy

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• I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

  Langston Hughes

  Science, Blood, Rivers

  "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" l. 1 (1921)

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• The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

  George Eliot

  Opinion, Contradictory, Sentiments

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.139

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• Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.

  Rumi

  Love, Friendship, Marriage

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.108, Lulu.com

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• The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Feds, Faculty, Imaginative

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.231

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• A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  James Allen (2015). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.7, BookRix

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• There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Children

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2017

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• I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Mind, Lost

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Past, Infinite, Humans

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.169

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• Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul.

  Francois Fenelon

  Doe, Restlessness

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• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Motivational, Music

  "LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.

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• One man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
  And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Men, Bending Down

  'When You Are Old'

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• Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

  Horace

  Hurt, Eye, Years

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• Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Meditation, Wandering Thoughts, Tongue

  Jeremy Taylor, George Rust (1835). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: With an Essay, Biographical and Critical ...”, p.73

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• Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

  Robert Browning

  Earth

  'Rabbi Ben Ezra' (1864) st. 27

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• Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

  Aristotle

  Love, Life, Positive

  Attributed to Aristotle in Diogenes Laertius "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers" translated by C. D. Yonge and Henry G. Bohn (p. 188), 1853.

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• With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Learning, Light

  Henry David Thoreau, Robert Bly (1992). “The Winged Life: The Poetic Voice of Henry David Thoreau”, Perennial

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• I call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul. Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul. Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances. There is soul music, soul food, and soul love... People need to climb the mountain not simple because it is there But because the soulful divinity needs to be mated with the spirit.

  Dalai Lama

  Distance, Ocean, Flower

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  Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Money

  Quoted in Marilyn Monroe in Her OwnWords (1990)

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• Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.

  John Dryden

  Eye, Spiders, Feels

  John Dryden (2014). “Marriage A-La-Mode”, p.47, A&C Black

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• God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best.

  Robert Collyer

  Inspirational, Life, Spring

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• I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

  William Ernest Henley

  Fear, Atheism, Unconquerable Will

  'Invictus. In Memoriam R.T.H.B.' (1888)

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