"The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear."

Soul, Body, Will

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"The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear."

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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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

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

George Eliot, British Author

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

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"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

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

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

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"I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women."

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"Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could."

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"An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch."

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"Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes."

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"Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination."

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"All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have."

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"The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late."

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"It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions."

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"In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled."

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"As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares."

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