"My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions."

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"My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions."

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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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"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 dead only knows their world."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being."

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"Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow."

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"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

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"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."

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"History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."

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"She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male."

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"Look at the woebegone walk of him. Eaten a bad egg. Poached eyes on ghost."

Humor

"I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction."

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"Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant?-I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but not that I had lost self-respect. What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?"

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"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."

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