"Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent."

Soul, People, Nerves

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"Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent."

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"Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman."

Maureen O'Hara, Irish Actress

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"The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Life is a sacred-spirit."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"My soul is a pale, tenuous membrane..."That was pleasing: a thin, tenuous membrane. It had the right anatomical quality. Tight blown, quivering in the blast of noisy life. It was time for him to descend from the serene empyrean of words into the actual vortex. He went down slowly. "My soul is a thin, tenuous membrane..."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"She had something more than material value ~ she had a soul, no money could buy."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

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"I don't think I do have a soul."

Al Purdy, Canadian Poet

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"Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Why is there so much problem just to know one's own Soul? The Soul resides in one's own abode (body), but one doesn't know it and then he says, 'I know this and I know that so'. Instead why don't you get to know your own 'Self'?"

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"The authentic self is the soul made visible."

Sarah Ban Breathnach, American Author

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"It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

Nature

"Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art."

Nature

"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness."

Beauty

"This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room."

Woman

"Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."

Dream

"The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers."

War

"Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."

Life

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."

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"Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do."

People

"Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works."

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