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Soul Quotes


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


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


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


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


"If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul."
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"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it."


"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?""


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


"Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible."



"I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul."


"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 soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."



"What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance."


"A loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong - not taking the loss - that is what does damage to the pocketbook and to the soul."


"PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction."
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