Quotes with soul-wasting

Quotes 221 till 240 of 549.

  • Cal Thomas In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Thomas Carlyle In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
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    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Jami In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.
    Jami
    Arabic Sufi poet, scholar and writer
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  • John F. Kennedy In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In Old Havana, the names of the streets before the revolution provided a glimpse into the city's state of mind. You might have known someone who lived on the corner of Soul and Bitterness, Solitude and Hope, or Light and Avocado.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bell Hooks Indeed much of the literature written about black folks in the post-civil rights era emphasized the need for jobs. Material advancement was deemed the pressing agenda. Mental health concerns were not a high priority. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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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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  • 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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  • 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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