• Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

  

  Frederic Chopin

  MusicianPolish1810 · 19th century

  3.8 · 25 votes · 50 reads

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• Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.5 · 9 votes · 177 reads

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• The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul...

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  Leonard Cohen

  WriterCanadian1934 · 20th century

  3.9 · 59 votes · 143 reads

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• The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.7 · 12 votes · 95 reads

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• The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.9 · 57 votes · 99 reads

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• The only substance properly so called is the soul.

  

  Henri Frédéric Amiel

  WriterSwiss1821 · 19th century

  4.9 · 10 votes · 143 reads

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• The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.7 · 29 votes · 69 reads

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• The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.

  

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  Anonymous

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• The soul never thinks without a picture.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.8 · 5 votes · 81 reads

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• The soul's emphasis is always right.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.7 · 38 votes · 144 reads

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• The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments.

  

  Epictetus

  PhilosopherGreek55 · 1st century

  4.0 · 34 votes · 154 reads

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• This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  3.8 · 61 votes · 57 reads

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• To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  3.2 · 28 votes · 171 reads

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• To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  3.7 · 26 votes · 172 reads

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• We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.8 · 30 votes · 19 reads

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• We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  4.6 · 14 votes · 71 reads

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• What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  4.6 · 11 votes · 104 reads

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• Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

  

  Rudyard Kipling

  WriterBritish1865 · 19th century

  4.2 · 60 votes · 88 reads

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