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Soul Quotes by George Eliot
- Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting…
- May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one…
- The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.
- Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of…
- For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul…
- A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is…
- Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another
- It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up…
- There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must…
- May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love,…
- For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving…
- Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
- Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls…
- Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
- Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
- What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at…
- The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.
- To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel,…
- Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of…
- and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range…
- Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of…
- Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
- No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say…
- No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
- Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life ... can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the…
More Soul Quotes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the… — Neil Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt