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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Only when creation stops can we find the Absolute. The Absolute is in the soul, not in creation. So by stopping creation, we come to know the Absolute.

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To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.

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Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

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The soul never grows old.

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The Eyes are the window to your soul

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Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.

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All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Soul Quotes , Damnation Quotes

Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.

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Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

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One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.

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If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.

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"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral — immoral from the scientific point of view." "Why?" "Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul."

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Giving Quotes , Soul Quotes

By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if me my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.

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All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability. Propositions, for instance, which set all the truth upon one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain, if they can enter at all, and sooner or later the mind expels them by instinct.

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Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

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A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

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The soul...is audible, not visible.

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The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.

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