Quotes with spirit

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  • Barbara Howar There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs.
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  • Henry David Thoreau To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Woodrow Wilson You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Arthur Miller A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Thomas Jefferson A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Francis Picabia A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • John Milton A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Susan Sontag A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of ''spirit'' over matter.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • William Winwood Reade A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
    William Winwood Reade
    British historian (1838 - 1875)
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  • Bayard Taylor Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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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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  • Swami Ramdas All spiritual disciplined are done with a view to still the mind. The perfectly still mind is universal spirit.
    Swami Ramdas
    Indian saint, philosopher, philanthropist and pilgrim (1884 - 1963)
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  • William Shakespeare All things that are,
    Are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Mary Caroline Richards Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.
    Mary Caroline Richards
    American poet, potter, and writer (1916 - 1999)
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  • Buzz Aldrin America's can-do spirit cast a warm glow across nations and cultures, generating more goodwill and support for our country's ideals and causes than had otherwise been possible.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Barry McGuire And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Adam Clarke And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Mary McCarthy Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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