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"A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties."
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"The Soul is the voice of the body's interests."
"The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood."
"Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation."
"Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation."
"There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred."
"A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world."
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"Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts."
"We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it."
"It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature."
"What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?"
"Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered."
"The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so."
"But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?"
"If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power."
"For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe."
"Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry."
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