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• I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Teacher, Believe, Teaching

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• It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To be at last in such secure innocence that one can juggle with the universe and the stars, to be so good that one can treat everything as a joke - that may be, perhaps, the real end and final holiday of human souls.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Stars, Real

  "All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

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• The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Beautiful, Spring, Soul

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.126

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• The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Drawing, Water

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.164

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• Via the squares on the chessboard, the Indians explain the movement of time and the age, the higher influences which control the world and the ties which link Chess with the human soul

  Al-Masudi

  Squares, Ties, Soul

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• Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Soul, Individuality

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• There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second is the immortality of the human soul; and the third is a future state of rewards and punishments. Suppose it possible for a man to disbelieve either of these three articles of faith and that man will have no conscience, he will have no other law than that of the tiger or the shark. The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.

  John Quincy Adams

  Wise, Men, Sharks

  Abigail Adams, John Quincy Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1848). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.432, Boston, Wilkins, Carter,

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• Learn your techniques well and be prepared to let them go when you touch the human soul.

  Carl Jung

  Creativity, Thinking, Soul

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• I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Soul, Needs

  Prime Time Press Conference on Iraq War, delivered on 13 April 2004 from the East Room of the White House

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• I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid of disturbing and distorting the silent operation of nature by clumsy interference.

  Carl Jung

  Soul, Would Be, Silent

  Carl Gustav Jung (1977). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung”, Bollingen

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• the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull

  Rest Of Life, Soul, Suffering

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• Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.

  E. M. Forster

  Real, Journey, Soul

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• Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Responsibility, Rights, Soul

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ellen Carol DuBois (1992). “The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches”, Northeastern Univ Pr

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• So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.

  St. Jerome

  Angel, Race, Heaven

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• Wine enlivens the human soul.

  Euripides

  Food, Wine, Cooking

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• The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of spiritual need, the man to whom we have no tie but our common nature, seems nearer to us than mother, brother, or friend. Our daily familiar life is but a hiding of ourselves from each other behind a screen of trivial words and deeds, and those who sit with us at the same hearth, are often the farthest off from the deep human soul within us, full of unspoken evil and unacted good.

  George Eliot

  Spiritual, Mother, Brother

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3786, Delphi Classics

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• The core of original sin, then is LOT - Lack of Trust. Or, it could be considered an innate inability to adequately value ourselves. Label it a 'negative self-image,' but do not say that the central core of the human soul is wickedness. ... positive Christianity does not hold to human depravity, but to human inability.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Self, Soul, Inability

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• Sometimes we talked about the nature of the human soul and about the Cosmic Unity of souls that I had believed in so firmly when I was 15 years old. My mother did not like the phrase Cosmic Unity. It was too pretentious. She preferred to call it a world soul.

  Freeman Dyson

  Mother, Years, Soul

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• No divine terror will ever be found in the work of the man who wastes a colossal strength in elaborating toys; for the first lesson that terror is sent to teach us is, the value of the human soul, and the shortness of mortal time.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Soul, Lessons

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.144

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• When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Joy, Heaven, Soul

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume”

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• There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music.

  Zoltan Kodaly

  Spiritual, Soul, Life Without Music

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• Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service.

  Jack Hyles

  Love Is, Soul, Selfishness

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• Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my straight and narrow little path, and to worship at the feet of my Deity, and what more can a human soul ask for?

  Alice James

  Feet, Soul, Deities

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• But we are learning from the teaching and example of Jesus that life itself is a religion, that nothing is more sacred than a human being, that the end of all right institutions, whether the home or the church or an educational establishment, or a government, is the development of the human soul.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Jesus, Educational, Teaching

  Anna Howard Shaw (1960). “The Speeches of Anna Howard Shaw”

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• Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Courage, Strong, Revenge

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