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  • Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

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  • Matthew Arnold Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • William Hazlitt Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Henry van Dyke Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Henry van Dyke Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • B. C. Forbes He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bethany Kennedy Scanlon I ignored everybody's input and followed my inward intuition. Don't ever let a loser lead you.
    Win Your Battles
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  • Barack Obama It is easier to start wars than to end them. It is easier to blame others than to look inward; to see what is different about someone than to find the things we share. But we should choose the right path, not just the easy path.
    Speech Cairo, 04-06-2009
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Rollo May It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
    Rollo May
    American psychologist
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  • Ralph J. Cudworth Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
    Ralph J. Cudworth
    English clergyman
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  • Lord George Byron No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Frederick W. Robertson No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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  • George Eliot Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Virginia Woolf Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Theodore Parker Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.
    Theodore Parker
    American minister (1810 - 1860)
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  • Aristotle The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Patricia Meyer Spacks The cliché that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.
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  • Marcus Aurelius To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • F. B. Meyer When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.
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