Quotes with soul-wasting

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  • James Allen A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • R. F. Hallock A man's possessions are just as large as his own soul. If this title-deeds cover more, the surplus acres own him, not he the acres.
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
    inaugurele rede 14-8-1947
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero A room without books is like a body without a soul.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Michel Faber A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.
    Lelieblank, scharlaken rood (2002)
    Michel Faber
    Dutch-Scottish English-language writer (1960 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Eileen Caddy A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.
    Eileen Caddy
    Scottisch spiritual teacher (1917 - 2006)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A strenuous soul hates cheap success.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Eliot A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Leo Tolstoy A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Douglas Macarthur Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • George Meredith Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Ahimas is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Alexander Pope All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
    Essay on Man 1, 276
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Boris Pasternak All customs and traditions, all our way of life, everything to do with home and order, has crumbled into dust in the general upheaval and reorganization of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the naked human soul stripped to the last shred, for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely as itself.
    Doctor Zhivago (1958) Ch. 13
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • James Joyce All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Ben Jonson Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back;
    And is a swelling, and the last affection
    A high mind can put off; being both a rebel
    Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth
    All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion,
    and offereth violence to nature's self.
    Catiline His Conspiracy
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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