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“Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.” Mahatma Gandhi, “The Story of my Experiments with Truth” - 1929

“Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own.” William Shakespeare, “Henry V” - 1600

“I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.” Mahatma Gandhi, “The Story of my Experiments with Truth” - 1929

“I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “The Sorrows of Young Werther” - 1774

“I do not think of you: you are ever before my soul!” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “The Sorrows of Young Werther” - 1774

“Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul.” Mao Zedong, “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung” - 1964

“It is hard to fight against impulsive desire. Whatever it wants it will buy at the cost of the soul.” Heraclitus, “On Nature” - c. 535 – c. 475 BCE

“what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose . . . his own soul?” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“Yes, we inevitably turn to God; for this religious sentiment is of its nature so pure, so delightful to the soul that experiences it, that it makes up to us for all our other losses.” Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World” - 1932

“The pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends by finding God there.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“He was always in a hurry to speak, and seemed always to put his whole soul into what he was saying.” Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina” - 1877

“Perfume is the soul of the flower, and sea-flowers have no soul.” Jules Verne, “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea” - 1870

“Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them; only small mean souls are otherwise.” Thomas Carlyle, “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History” - 1841

“There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!” Thomas Carlyle, “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History” - 1841

“No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of a man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign, and believe there, by the grace of God alone!” Thomas Carlyle, “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History” - 1841

“The great soul of the legislator is the only miracle that can prove his mission.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “The Social Contract” - 1762

“I am not a collection of members which we call the human body: I am not a subtle air distributed through these members, I am not a wind, a fire, a vapour, a breath, nor anything at all which I can imagine or conceive; because I have assumed that...” René Descartes, “Meditations on First Philosophy” - 1641

“But if I am wrong in thinking the human soul immortal, I am glad to be wrong; nor will I allow the mistake which gives me so much pleasure to be wrested from me as long as I live.” Marcus Tullius Cicero, “On Old Age” - 44 BC

“Valour is stability, not of legs and arms, but of the courage and the soul; it does not lie in the goodness of our horse or our arms but in our own.” Michel de Montaigne, “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne” - 1580

“The least forced and most natural motions of the soul are the most beautiful; the best employments, those that are least strained.” Michel de Montaigne, “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne” - 1580

“I said within myself that his language had caught fire from my eyes; for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.” Rabindranath Tagore, “The Home and the World” - 1916

“Possess your soul in patience — you will see!” Tennessee Williams, “The Glass Menagerie” - 1944

“Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.” Heraclitus, “On Nature” - c. 535 – c. 475 BCE

“Do you not know that there are souls constantly tormented?” Gustave Flaubert, “Madame Bovary” - 1856

“Hollywood’s a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.” Marilyn Monroe, “My Story” - 1974

“Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasury-house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things, that may not be taken from you.” Oscar Wilde, “The Soul of Man under Socialism” - 1891

“For one moment our lives met—our souls touched.” Oscar Wilde, “Lady Windermere's Fan” - 1893

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