Soul Quotes - Page 275

I love thee as I love the tone Of some soft-breathing flute Whose soul is wak'd for me alone, When all beside is mute.

Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die.

Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues, and the guaranty of acquisitions the most invigorating in their use and inestimable in their worth.

One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community would actually redeem the world.

Be patient with the boys - you are dealing with soul-stuff.

Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.

There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own.

Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.

Im not this tortured soul or anything.

A corporation has no soul.

In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

When the soul communes with itself the lip is silent.

I think it's for the critics to decide whether or not their loathing of the play is based on something other than the play's merits or demerits. They must search their own souls, or whatever.

The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor the zealous Paul, Who for their friends abandoned soul and all.

Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave?Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.

The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.

I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in themselves, but in their results. I shudder at the thought of any, even the most trivial, incident, which may operate upon this intolerable agitation of soul. I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect-in terror. In this unnerved-in this pitiable condition-I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR.

A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

...losing through you what seemed myself, i find selves unimaginably mine; beyond sorrow's own joys and hopings very fears yours is the light by which my spirit's born: yours is the darkness of my soul's return... you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

I spill my bright incalculable soul

Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think.

For me, the soul is connected to a higher being. It's not about religion; it's about connecting to your true self - your truth, the truth inside of you, the one you were born with.

In the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape.

Many even see in Obama a messiah-like figure, a great soul, and some affectionately call him Mahatma Obama.