Quotes with soul-wasting

Quotes 361 till 380 of 549.

  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Arthur C. Brooks The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • Ben Nicholson The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Aristotle The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • George Sand The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Leonard Cohen The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul...
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Paxton Hood The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, ''The medicines of the soul.''
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Norman Mailer The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Herodotus The destiny of man is in his own soul
    Herodotus
    Greek historian (484 - 425)
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  • William Shakespeare The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Albert Einstein The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any egoconsciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.
    The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man (1933)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Socrates The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Margaret Oliphant The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Ghose Aurobindo The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.
    Ghose Aurobindo
    Indian philosopher, yogi, guru, poet, and nationalist (1872 - 1950)
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  • Carlos Fuentes The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • William Shakespeare The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new-hatched unfledged comrade.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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