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A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back. |
Arthur Miller |
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All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot. |
Gilbert K. Chesterton |
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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body. |
Thomas Hobbes |
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By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive. |
Albert Schweitzer |
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Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed. |
Albert Schweitzer |
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. |
Albert Einstein |
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How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
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I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit |
George Bernard Shaw |
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I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. |
Kahlil Gibran |
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I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits |
Samuel Johnson |
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge |
Voltaire |
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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true |
Gore Vidal |
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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. |
Helen Keller |
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