"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."

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"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."

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"Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?"

Horace, Roman Poet

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"The beauty of your soul depends on your thoughts more than what is going on around you."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"The spark of light in the soul is beginning of self awareness."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

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"Brevity is the soul of wit."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"I've heard that the soul often recognizes truth when it hears it, even if the mind does not."

Richelle Mead, American Author

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"The magic moment in life is when your soul just connects with another soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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Explore more quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."

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"Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses."

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"Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life."

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"It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser."

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"When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory."

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"If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong."

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"Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or less probable: our happiness is never in our own hands; we inherit our constitution; we stand buffet among friends and enemies; we may be so built as to feel a sneer or an aspersion with unusual keenness and so circumstanced as to be unusually exposed to them; we may have nerves very sensitive to pain, and be afflicted with a disease very painful. Virtue will not help us, and it is not meant to help us."

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"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."

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"To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall."

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"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."

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