Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timbered…

Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.

— George Herbert

The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.

— John of the Cross

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

For, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts…

— Plutarch

I shall say, that I feel myself virtuous, because my soul is at rest.

— Frances Wright

Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation…

— Laurence Sterne

I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease.

— Frances Wright

Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron…

— Lewis Mumford

Coal is the moral choice, particularly for the developing world... The model for the world right now should be Australia. Australia gets it. Scientifically…

— Marc Morano

a TEN-YEAR-OLD lad in Indianapolis who was arrested for picking up coal along the side of railroad tracks is now in jail. If the…

— Mother Jones

Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were…

— Billy Bragg

The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured.

— Joel Osteen

Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through 2015; while we always strive to operate a full capacity…

— Joe Craft