"Impropriety is the soul of wit."

Soul, Wit

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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

Soul, Cure, Eye

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Soul, Beauty, Thoughts, Life

"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

Soul, Battle, Blood, Horror

"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

Soul, Character, Thoughts, Mind

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Soul, Brevity, Wit

"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

Soul, Being, Children, Evil

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

Victor Hugo, French Author

Soul,

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

Richelle Mead, American Author

Soul, Truth, Hearing, Mind

"The dead only knows their world."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Soul, Life, Truth, Regret

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

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

Soul, Free will, Heaven, Hell

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"What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature."

Life, Brothers, Literature, Now

"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."

Friendship, Friends

"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."

Age, Old, Youth

"If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself."

Integrity, Lie, Self, Truth, Morality

"Did you really cease to love a person because you had been treated cruelly?"

Love, Cruelty, Loss, Emotion

"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

Age, Burden, Memories, Old

"No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul."

Soul, Christian

"And the poor lady, so small in her black satin, shrivelled up and sallow, with her funny corkscrew curls, took the little boy on her lap and put her arms around him and wept as though her heart would break. But her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer."

Emotion, Love, Suffering, Family

"We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby."

Baby,

"If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?"

Change, Life, Beliefs, News