Quotes with soul-force

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  • René Descartes Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
    René Descartes
    French philosopher, scientist (1596 - 1650)
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  • Alice Walker Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Leon Trotsky Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Robertson Wherever men think clearly, and are thoroughly interested, they express themselves with perspicuity and force.
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  • Eugene V. Debs While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Bartholomew Dowling Who dreads to the dust returning?
    Who shrinks from the sable shore,
    Where the high and haughty yearning
    Of the soul can sting no more?
    Source: The Revel: Time of the Famine and Plague in India, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
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  • Francis Bacon Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • John Milton Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
    Source: Paradise lost (1667)
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Anne Frank Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • William James Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Albert Pike Will is the dynamic soul-force.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Brendon Urie With an older generation, there's some weight carried with the Beatles. There's almost like an untouchable, god-like force field around them.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Anzia Yezierska Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut - a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.
    Anzia Yezierska
    Jewish-American novelist (1880 - 1970)
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  • Confucius Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Camille Paglia Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.
    Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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