A. Edward Newton Quotes, Book Quotes, Soul Quotes

Who was it who said, 'I hold the buying of more books than one can peradventure read, as nothing less than the soul's reaching towards infinity; which is the only thing that raises us above the beasts that perish.'? Whoever it was, I agree with him.

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Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice, Who ventures life and soul upon the dice.

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If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.

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By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.

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We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.

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No coward soul is mine.

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In true love it is the soul that envelops the body.

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Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to (or for) the inner (or inward) development than the exemple of men devoted to the good. It is in the company of men pursuing a same ideal that the still weavering (or unsteady) soul can set oneself ("se fixer", Fr) and stick to (or attach to) everything that is noble and generous.

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My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

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It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.

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Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.

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Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

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He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept.

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He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.

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My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.

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Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul.

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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. [This miserable mode Maintain the melancholy souls of those Who lived withouten infamy or praise.]

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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

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Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee.

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