"No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul."

Soul, Christian

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"No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul."

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"What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

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"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

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"The most beautiful rainbow is the one inside your soul."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"The divinity of the soul; life, light and love."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation."

George Eliot, British Author

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"Things of themselves cannot touch the soul at all. They have no entry to the soul, and cannot turn or move it. The soul alone turns and moves itself, making all externals presented to it cohere with the judgements it thinks worthy of itself."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

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"A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive."

Happiness

"A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes."

Religion

"You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action."

Freedom

"It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour."

Beauty

"It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it."

Acceptance

"Only a mediocre person is always at his best."

Personality

"When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?"

Sacrifice

"The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes."

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"Writing is the supreme solace."

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"Supposing there is no life everlasting. Think what it means if death is really the end of all things. They've given up all for nothing. They've been cheated. They're dupes."Waddington reflected for a little while. "I wonder if it matters what they have aimed at is illusion. Their lives are in themselves beautiful. I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books the write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art."

Reflection