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Soul Quotes - Page 53

Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.

Jonathan Edwards (1843). “The Works of President Edwards in Four Volumes: A Reprint of the Worcester Edition, with Valuable Additions and a Copious General Index”, p.21

It is the soul that sees; the outward eyes Present the object, but the Mind descries. We see nothing till we truly understand it.

John E. Thornes, John Constable (1999). “John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science”, p.173, A&C Black

Great souls endure in silence.

Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Complete works. Ed. with careful rev. and new tr., by C.J. Hempel”, p.295

My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.

"Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Purgatorio, Song XXXI, 128, 1321.

[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.

William Carlos Williams (1978). “A Recognizable Image: William Carlos Williams on Art and Artists”, New Directions Publishing Corporation

The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1987). “National Music: And Other Essays”, Oxford University Press, USA