Quotes with soul-searching

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  • George Bernard Shaw Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Charles Dickens Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Matthew Fox Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.
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  • Hilaire Belloc Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Bertrand Russell It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Lord George Byron It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a ''grand peut-''tre'' - but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it -the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • George Macdonald It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Plato It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Lucretius It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • Seneca It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Horace Mann It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Albert Einstein It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • William Dean Howells It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
    William Dean Howells
    American writer, criticus (1837 - 1920)
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  • Eric Hoffer It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites - opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity - where energies flow smoothly in one direction - there will be much doing but no music.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • William Ernest Henley It matters not how strait the gate,
    How charged with punishments the scroll,
    I am the master of my fate,
    I am the captain of my soul.
    Invictus
    William Ernest Henley
    English poet, critic and editor (1849 - 1903)
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  • Alice Walker It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Robert Bolt It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!
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  • Frank Crane It takes so little to make people happy. Just a touch, If we know how to give it, just a word fitly spoken, a slight readjustment of some bolt or pin or bearing in the delicate machinery of a soul.
    Frank Crane
    American actor
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