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Quotes about Soul


My heart is feminine, nor can forget-- To all, except one image, madly blind; So shakes the needle, and so stands the pole, As vibrates my fond heart to my fix'd soul.

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole; But what were that intrinsic virtue worth, Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge, Fresh from St. Andrew's College, Should nail the conscious needle to the north?

Thomas Hood

You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit of criticism, but the talents that attract people to the hearing of the Word.

George MacDonald

Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?

John Keats

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

William Aristotle

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve.. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Fredrich Martin

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Pamela Vaull Starr

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

Ann Montaigne

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. -Ferdinand Foch.

Ferdinand Foch

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In vain I trusted that the flowing bowl Would banish sorrow, and enlarge the soul. To the late revel, and protracted feast, Wild dreams succeeded, and disorder'd rest.

Matthew Prior

O, love is the soul of a true Irishman; He loves all that's lovely, loves all that he can, With his sprig of shillelagh and shamrock so green.

John Locke

My soul to-day Is far away Sailing the Vesuvian Bay.

Thomas Buchanan Read

On my velvet couch reclining, Ivy leaves my brow entwining, While my soul expands with glee, What are kings and crowns to me?

Thomas Moore

But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they're jealous. 'Tis a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself.

William Shakespeare

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

John Dryden

Words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Sing out my soul, thy songs of joy; Such as a happy bird will sing, Beneath a Rainbow's lovely arch, In early spring.

William Henry Davies

Therefore I say again I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul Refuse you for my judge, whom yet once more I hold my most malicious for and think not At all a friend to truth.

William Shakespeare

It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.

Rona Barrett

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

Joseph Aristotle

To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

Lin Confucius

Blush, happy maiden, when you feel The lips which press love's glowing seal; But as the slow years darklier roll, Grown wiser, the experienced soul Will own as dearer far than they The lips which kiss the tears away.

Elizabeth Akers Allen ("Florence Percy")

. . . And when my lips meet thine Thy very soul is wedded unto mine.

Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

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