"Look at another person while living; the soul……" — Richard Jefferies
"Look at another person while living; the soul is not visible, only the body which it animates. Therefore, merely because after death the soul is not visible is no demonstration that it does not still live."
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40 Quotes by Richard Jefferies
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I have observed that almost all those whose labour lies in the field, and who go down to their business…
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I must stay under the old tree in the midst of the long grass, the luxury of the leaves, and…
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O beautiful human life! Tears come to my eyes as I think of it. So beautiful, so inexpressibly beautiful! The…
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It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always…
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An inspiration - a long, deep breath of the pure air of thought - could alone give health to the…
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I desire a greatness of soul, an irradiance of mind, a deeper insight, a broader hope.
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Give me power of soul, so that I may actually effect by its will that which I strive for.
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The heart looks into space to be away from earth.
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That I may have the soul-life, the soul-nature, let divine beauty bring to me divine soul.
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I believe in the human form; let me find something, some method, by which that form may achieve the utmost…
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Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.
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To the soul, there is no past and no future; all is, and will be ever, in now. For artificial…
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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
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Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
— Seneca the Younger
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Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him…
— Samuel Johnson
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Our faith is well founded; but it is necessary that this faith become part of our lives. A great effort…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Nature is the system of laws established by the Creator for the existence of things and for the succession of…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.
— Samuel Johnson
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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.…
— James Boswell
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The first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican? It…
— James Madison
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The volumes, the surfaces, the lines-in one word, the structures that build a tectonic construction-do not represent the whole picture:…
— Unknown Author
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Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.
— John of Salisbury
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Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take…
— Emile M. Cioran
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