"A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there."

Soul, Heart, Being

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"A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there."

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

Soul, Body, Brevity, Wit

"The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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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

Soul, Eye, Unconscious

"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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"The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled."

William Blake, English Poet

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

George Eliot, British Author

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"Allow Soul's unique knowledge to filter freely from your Soul - through to your Mind."

Eleesha, British Author

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"Every creature is a word of God."

God

"The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge."

God

"All God wants of man is a peaceful heart."

God

"There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence."

Present

"The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great."

Work

"If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself."

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"What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action."

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"The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge."

Man

"Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us."

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"The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake."

Mistake