Quotes with soul-wasting

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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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  • 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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  • Alice Walker It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Bethany Kennedy Scanlon Jealousy's vicious bulldog trampled through my soul. I was furious, no, furious is not a strong enough word; I was enraged with envy, hate, and malice toward a strange brunette kissing my boyfriend. What is that tramp doing with my man?
    Lori Lentrall, in Secrets of an Undercover Agent
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  • Bayard Taylor Knowledge alone is the being of Nature, Giving a soul to her manifold features, Lighting through paths of the primitive darkness, The footsteps of Truth and the vision of Song.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Will Durant Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Will Durant Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Walter Lippmann Let a human being throw the energies of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Stella Adler Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
    Stella Adler
    American actress and acting (1901 - 1992)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Sigmund Freud Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Hannah Whitall Smith Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.
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  • James Joyce Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • William Law Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
    William Law
    English priest (1686 - 1761)
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  • Barry Cornwall Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge which his presence gives! We weep or rave; but still he lives, and lives master and lord, amidst pride and tears and pain.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Love is the beauty of the soul.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Guy de Maupassant Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
    Guy de Maupassant
    French writer (1850 - 1893)
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