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Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes about Soul

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Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

Logan Pearsall Smith
Funny, People, Soul
Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"

If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.

Logan Pearsall Smith
Time, Work, Soul

The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.

Logan Pearsall Smith
Greed, Soul, Lust
Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.

Logan Pearsall Smith
Soul, Growth, Quarrels
Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom

Logan Pearsall Smith
Art, Soul, Gallery
Logan Pearsall Smith (1950). “A Portrait of Logan Pearsall Smith: Drawn from His Letters and Diaries, and Introduced by John Russell”

What shall I compare it to, this fantastic thing I call my Mind? To a waste-paper basket, to a sieve choked with sediment, or to a barrel full of floating froth and refuse? No, what it is really most like is a spider's web, insecurely hung on leaves and twigs, quivering in every wind, and sprinkled with dewdrops and dead flies. And at its centre, pondering forever the Problem of Existence, sits motionless the spider-like and uncanny Soul.

Logan Pearsall Smith
Wind, Forever, Soul
Logan Pearsall Smith (1989). “An anthology”

We should nourish our souls on the dew of Poesy, and manure them as well.

Logan Pearsall Smith
Soul, Dew, Should
Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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