Soul Quotes - Page 15

• I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  House, Ease, Pleasure

  'The Palace of Art' (1832) st. 1

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• From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

  John Donne

  Sleep, Men, Flow

  c.1610-1615 Holy Sonnets, no.10.

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• The soul of the just man is but a paradise, in which, God tells us, He takes His delight. What do you imagine, must that dwelling be in which a King so mighty, so wise, and so pure, containing in Himself all good, can delight to rest? Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He told us, He created us in his own image and likeness.

  Teresa of Avila

  Wise, Kings, Men

  St. Teresa of Avila (2011). “The Interior Castle: or the Mansions”, p.32, TAN Books

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• Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  World, Dangerous, This World

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• And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.

  Robert Browning

  Book, Ignorance, Three

  'Cleon' (1855) l. 57

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• The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God's organic will, which rules and moulds this universe.

  James Anthony Froude

  Men, Energy, Decay

  James Anthony Froude (1879). “The Nemesis of Faith”

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• Virtue is the health of the soul.

  Joseph Joubert

  Healthy, Virtue

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.86

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• To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ideas, Giving, Spirit

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• The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Pygmalion, Good Man, Secret

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• A single soul is richer than all the worlds.

  Alexander Smith

  World

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• The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Color, Mind, Masters

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• Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

  Howard Thurman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Sufi, Draws

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  Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Lying, Weather

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.

  Matthew Arnold

  Strength, Kings, Guilty

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.366, Delphi Classics

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• Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Life, Spiritual, Interesting

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• I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!

  Emily Bronte

  Life, Heathcliff, Romantic Lines

  Wuthering Heights ch. 16 (1847)

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• And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has become the motif of the soul as a skiff, abandoned on the infinite sea of desires, in the sterile field of cares and ignorance, among the mirages of knowledge, amid the unreason of the world - a craft at the mercy of the sea's great madness, unless it throws out a solid anchor, faith, or raises its spiritual sails so that the breath of God may bring it to port.

  Michel Foucault

  Spiritual, Ignorance, Anchors

  Michel Foucault (2013). “Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason”, p.12, Vintage

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• Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.

  Debbie Ford

  Creativity, Creative, Tides

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  Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Happiness, Graduation

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• Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Inspirational, Beauty

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• As sight is in the eye, so is the mind in the soul!

  Sophocles

  Eye, Sight, Mind

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• Just as a mirror, which reflects all things, is set in its own container, so too the rational soul is placed in the fragile container of the body. In this way, the body is governed in its earthly life by the soul, and the soul contemplates heavenly things through faith.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Mirrors, Body, Way

  Hildegard of Bingen (1998). “The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen : Volume II”, p.22, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Dear Night! this world's defeat; The stop to busy fools; care's check and curb; The day of spirits; my soul's calm retreat Which none disturb! Christ's progress, and His prayer-time; The hours to which high Heaven cloth chime.

  Henry Vaughan

  Prayer, Night, Heaven

  'The Night' l. 25 from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

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• Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Stars, Cheerful

  1802 'Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour', complete poem (published 1807).

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