Quotes 61 till 80 of 556.
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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
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An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
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And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.
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And the National Bank at a profit sells road maps for the soul
To the old folks home and the collegeHighway 61 Revisited (1965) -
Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
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Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul.
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Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
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As a teenager, my dad taught me about the idea of unintended consequences, and I've had the experience, and how to deal with it, pounded into my soul over the years.
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests
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Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?
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Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
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Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,
Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong.A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 48, st. 1 -
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.
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Because I've been so blessed with a background in nursing and spent so much time with patients at a really intimate, vulnerable time in their lives, the one lesson I've learned is that you never turn down a challenge where you can keep your creative integrity and your heart and soul and your sense of self.
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Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.
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