“Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. ”
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“Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. ”
“In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit ”
“The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits”
“Faith is spiritualized imagination”
“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money”
“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit”
“True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment”
“If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old”
“Love in its essence is spiritual fire ”
“Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence”
“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit ”
“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through”
“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits”
“Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall”
“Gone yet not forgotten, although we are apart, your spirit lives within me, forever in my heart”
“When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the event by; it is good and made by a good workman”
“There is no worse screen to block out the spirit than confidence in our own intelligence”
“When it is a question of God's almighty spirit, never say "I can't"”
“God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages”
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict”