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There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
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Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
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'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.
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'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.
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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
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A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
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A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
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A man's possessions are just as large as his own soul. If this title-deeds cover more, the surplus acres own him, not he the acres.
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A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
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A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
Source: inaugurele rede 14-8-1947 -
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
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A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.
Source: Lelieblank, scharlaken rood (2002) -
A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.
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