“Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.”
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“Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.”
“The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.”
“Beauty awakens the soul to act”
“The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul”
“Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul”
“It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only”
“What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic”
“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter, often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter, in the eye”
“How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!”
“I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on”
“God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod”
“God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, one to show a woman when he loves her”
“What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?”
“Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within”
“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul”
“Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life”
“The only God whom our thoughts can rest on, our hearts cling to, and our conscience can recognize, is the God whose image dwells in our own souls”
“The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty, and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul when arrayed in this their natural and fit attire.”
“A book ought to be the ax to break the frozen sea within us”
“The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul”