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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations. - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) The soul has this proof of its divinity; that divine things delight it. [Lat., Animus hoc habet argumentum divinitatis suae, quod illum divina delectant.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Quoestionum Naturalium (praefet ad 1 lib) Alas! alas! why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; and he that might the vantage best have took found out the remedy. - William Shakespeare And her immortal part with angels lives. - William Shakespeare Think'st thou I'll endanger my soul gratis? - William Shakespeare Thy soul's flight, If it find heaven, must find it out to-night. - William Shakespeare Banquo, thy soul's flight, If it find heaven, must find it out to-night. - William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Macbeth at III, i) Within this wall of flesh There is a soul counts thee her creditor, And with advantage means to pay thy love; And, my good friend, thy voluntary oath Lives in this bosom, dearly cherished. - William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John (King John at III, iii) Reason, you rogue, reason: thinkest thou, I'll endanger my soul gratis? - William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Falstaff at II, ii) The soul has more diseases than the body. - Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek) Man who man would be Must rule the empire of himself. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sonnet on Political Greatness A single soul is richer than all the worlds. - Alexander Smith Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. - Logan Pearsall Smith Whatever of earth is form'd, to earth returns, * * * The soul Of man alone, that particle divine, Escapes the wreck of worlds, when all things fail. - William C. Somerville Whate'er of earth is form'd, to earth returns, . . . The soul Or man alone, that particle divine, Escapes the wreck of worlds, when all things fail. - William C. Somerville, The Chase (bk. IV, l. 1) The image of God was no less resplendent in man's practical understanding,--namely, that storehouse of the soul in which are treasured up the rules of action and the seeds of morality. - Bishop Robert South We may compare the soul to a linen cloth; it must be first washed to take off its native hue and color, and to make it white; and afterwards it must be ever and anon washed to preserve it white. - Bishop Robert South For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; For soule is forme and doth the bodie make. - Edmund Spenser, An Hymn in Honour of Beauty (l. 132) The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all the observations and all the efforts of philosophers ought to turn towards this Me, the centre and moving power of our sentiments and our ideas. - Madame de Stael (Baronne Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein), Germany (pt. III, ch. II) I consider the soul of man as the ruin of a glorious pile of buildings; where, amidst great heaps of rubbish, you meet with noble fragments of sculpture, broken pillars and obelisks, and a magnificence in confusion. - Sir Richard Steele I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary. - Laurence Sterne After all, let a man take what pains he may to hush it down, a human soul is an awful, ghostly, unquiet possession for a bad man to have. Who knows the metes and bounds of it? Who knows all its awful perhapses,--those shudderings and tremblings, which it can no more live down than it can outlive its own eternity? - Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe My soul is a dark ploughed field In the cold rain; My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain. - Sara Teasdale (Mrs. E.B. Filsinger), The Broken Field But this main-miracle that thou art thou, With power on thine own act and on the world. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, De Profundis (last lines) . . . but while I breathe Heaven's air, and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, The Foresters (act IV, sc. 1) Displaying page 8 of 9 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [8] 9
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