Quotes with soul-force

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  • George Eliot Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • A. E. Housman His folly has not fellow
    Beneath the blue of day
    That gives to man or woman
    His heart and soul away.
    Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 14, st. 3
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Queen Victoria His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Marilyn Monroe Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul.
    Source: Marilyn Monroe : In Her Own Words (1983)
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Akhenaton Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Marquis de Sade Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Herman Melville Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Emily Dickinson Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • François Fénelon How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Oscar Wilde How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Aaron Klug Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • William Ernest Henley I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
    William Ernest Henley
    English poet, critic and editor (1849 - 1903)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Burning Spear I believe music is like medicine. Like a good tonic, it can open your mind, strengthen and possibly even cure you. Music can work on many levels, and nothing I know of possesses the healing force that exists within music.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • M. Russell Ballard I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
    M. Russell Ballard
    American businessman and religious (2018 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Mark Twain I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious - except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Robert Browning I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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