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Soul Quotes



"Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance."



"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."


"You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo."



"Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will."



"Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar."


"To have another language is to possess a second soul."


"The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness."


"I hate this wretched willow soul of mine, patiently enduring, plaited or twisted by other hands."



"It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul."


"Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul."


"Lying under oath, and encouraging lies under oath, does go to the very heart and soul of what courts do. If we say we don't care, let's forget about courts, and we'll just have other ways of figuring out how to handle disputes."


"I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments."


"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop."



"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?""


"The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery."


"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."


"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul."


"One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity."



"Whatever his secret was, I have learnt one secret too, and namely: that the soul is but a manner of being -- not a constant state -- that any soul may be yours, if you find and follow its undulations. The hereafter may be the full ability of consciously living in any chosen soul, in any number of souls, all of them unconscious of their interchangeable burden."


"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."
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