Soul Quotes - Page 13

• A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

  Plato

  Confused, Eye, Men

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• The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Beauty, Stronger, Reason

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.269

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• I loafe and invite my soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Invites, My Soul

  Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.129, Psychology Press

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• If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul

  Harold S. Kushner

  Life, Thank You, Thankful

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• The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.

  Quintilian

  Obscurity, Rust, Kind

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• Brevity is the soul of wit.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Attitude, Communication

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. 90

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• Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

  Michael Jackson

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Jun 24, 2013

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• Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Spiritual, Humans, Whole

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• Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

  Alexander Pope

  Winning, Sight, Merit

  'The Rape of the Lock' (1714) canto 5, l. 33

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• Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.

  George Eliot

  Nature, Fall, Autumn

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.31, 谷月社

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• There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Cities, Rivers, Shining

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• The authentic self is the soul made visable.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Yoga, Self, Made

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• In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.55, North Atlantic Books

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• The desire, which is accomplished, is sweet to the soul.

  Solomon

  Sweet, Desire, Accomplished

  "A new translation of the Proverbs of Solomon, with notes by W. French and G. Skinner".

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• An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Elderly, Hands

  "Sailing to Byzantium" l. 9 (1928)

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• If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

  Eleanora Duse

  Summer, Nature, Moving

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• The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

  Anatole France

  Art, Adventure, Criticism

  La Vie litt‚raire (The Literary Life, 1888) dedicatory letter

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• As the flowers follow the sun, and silently hold up their petals to be tinted and enlarged by its shining, so must we, if we would know the joy of God, hold our souls, wills, hearts, and minds, still before Him, whose voice commands, whose love warns, whose truth makes fair our whole being. God speaks for the most part in such silence only. If the soul be full of tumult and jangling voices, His voice is little likely to be heard.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Flower, Heart, Voice

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

  Daniel Defoe

  Soul And Body, Lust, Literature

  'An Essay Upon Projects' (1697)

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• You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Preparation, Earth

  Rick Warren (2011). “What on Earth Am I Here For? Purpose Driven Life”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Ideas, Perfect, Joy

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.85, Rabindranath Tagore

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• The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Action, Conversation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.167, Penguin

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• Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Work, Inspiration, Soul And Body

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.

  Matthew Arnold

  Sight, Hustle, Bustle

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• Life is the soul's nursery.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Life Is, Nursery

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The memoirs of Barry Lyndon. The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond. Burlesques”, p.275

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