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"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."
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"A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world."

"Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul."

"Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement."

"Soul mates may be linked, but fight to separate, causing wounds and confusion. They teach what no one else can."

"I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul."
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"The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear."
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"Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates."

"Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life-the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it-can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances."

"It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us."

"Mr. Poyser had no reason to be ashamed of his leg, and suspected that the growing abuse of top-boots and other fashions tending to disguise the nether limbs had their origin in a pitiable degeneracy of the human calf."

"Tis God gives skill but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio."

"...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth."

"In our instinctive rebellion against pain, we are children again, and demand an active will to wreak our vengeance on."

"There is no feeling except the extremes of fear and grief that does not find relief in music."

"He has got no good red blood in his body," said Sir James."No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses," said Mrs. Cadwallader."
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