"The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul."

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"The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul."

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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

"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Soul, Losing

"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

Soul, Man, Worth

"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

Soul, Rainbow, Beautiful, Inside

"The divinity of the soul; life, light and love."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Soul, Divinity, Life, Light

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

George Eliot, British Author

Soul, Memory, Expectation, Emotion

"Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

Soul,

"These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Soul, Optimism, Ageing, Sun

"I committed a cardinal sin by starving my soul while allowing mind to have a feast!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

Soul, Mind, Hunger, Neglect

Explore more quotes by Mercy Otis Warren

"On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole."

Men, Army, December, Evening

"The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition."

Ambition, Countries, Mankind

"General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York."

Army, Washington

"The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address."

Court, Influence

"The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament to be more than adequate to their ability."

War, Ability, Cooperation, Parliament

"The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated."

Progress, Ideas, Revolution

"By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers."

Time, War, America, Friends

"The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence."

Affection, Independence, Influence, Principles

"The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul."

Soul, Character, Study

"The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair."

Success, Courage, Americans, Despair