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> [He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/he-who-doesn-t-have-the-spirit-of-his-time-has-all-its-misery/)

[Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/)

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> [The only great spirit of our time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-weil/the-only-great-spirit-of-our-time/)

[Simone Weil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-weil/)

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> [We should recognize that the Lord will speak to us through the Spirit in His own time and in His own way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dallin-h-oaks/we-should-recognize-that-the-lord-will-speak-to-us-through-the-spirit/)

[Dallin H. Oaks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dallin-h-oaks/)

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> [Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/viktor-e-frankl/even-a-genius-cannot-completely-resist-his-zeitgeist-the-spirit-of/)

[Viktor E. Frankl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/viktor-e-frankl/)

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> [It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-delacroix/it-is-only-possible-to-speak-in-the-language-and-in-the-spirit-of-one/)

[Eugene Delacroix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-delacroix/)

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> [It is a happy woman when the spirit time is come, that finds herself in the presence of a good man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-lee/it-is-a-happy-woman-when-the-spirit-time-is-come-that-finds-herself/)

[Jeanette Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-lee/)

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> [Is there a place here for the spirit ? Is there time on this brief platform for anything other than mind 's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-s-thomas/is-there-a-place-here-for-the-spirit-is-there-time-on-this-brief/)

[R. S. Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-s-thomas/)

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> [“The external world is passing in time. The spirit is beyond time. The trouble is that we can’t see internal things as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/belzebuub/the-external-world-is-passing-in-time-the-spirit-is-beyond-time-the/)

[Belzebuub](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/belzebuub/)

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> [We are living 'between the times' - the time of Christ's resurrection and the new age of the Spirit, and the time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-edward-kirk/we-are-living-between-the-times-the-time-of-christ-s-resurrection-and/)

[David Edward Kirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-edward-kirk/)

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