Quotes with soul-destroying

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  • Wayne Dyer Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Samuel Butler Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Amy Carmichael Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.
    Amy Carmichael
    Missionary in India (1867 - 1951)
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  • George Eliot Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • John Milton Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Horace Mann Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows.
    The Duty of Owning Books (1859)
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Salman Rushdie Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Sir Walter Scott Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Jean Paul Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Dorothy Parker Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • William Shakespeare Brevity is the soul of wit.
    Hamlet (1600)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Billy Eckstine Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.
    Billy Eckstine
    American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader (1914 - 1993)
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  • John Milton But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • J. G. Ballard But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Aristotle But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Bret Harte But still when the mists of doubt prevail, And we lie becalmed by the shores of age, We hear from the misty troubled shore The voce of children gone before. Drawing the soul to its anchorage.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Virginia Woolf But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world - a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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