Quotes with spirits

Quotes 21 till 37 of 37.

  • Leon Edel Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, during the middle of the nineteenth century, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Bill Hybels Our spirits, like our bodies, have requirements for health and growth. Some people don't want to pay the price of developing good spiritual habits.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Barbara Deming Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • John Gay The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Gerard De Nerval The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
    Gerard De Nerval
    French writer, poet (1808 - 1855)
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  • William Cobbett The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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  • Sir Walter Scott The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Bjork There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn These fragile bodies of touch and taste
    This vibrant skin, this hair like lace
    Spirits open to the thrust of grace
    Never a breath you can afford to waste, when you're
    Lovers in a dangerous time
    Lovers in a dangerous time...
    Stealing Fire (1984)
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Brigham Young This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits who are waiting for tabernacles might be brought forth
    Polygamy Journal of Discourses, 4:56(Sept. 21, 1856)
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Alex Grey To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.
    Alex Grey
    American visionary artist, author and teacher
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  • Anthony Wayne Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.
    Anthony Wayne
    American politican and statesman (1745 - 1796)
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  • Carlos Santana When you fly to New York, sometimes they put you on hold and you just go round and around in a holding pattern. Sometimes in a concert, I feel other spirits in a holding pattern that they want to land through my heart and through my fingers.
    Carlos Santana
    Mexican and American guitarist (1947 - )
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  • George Santayana It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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