My Soul Quotes - Page 15

• While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.

  John Dryden

  Lying, Grief, Eye

  John Dryden (1701). “The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas....: Now First Collected Together, and Corrected from the Roginals”, p.86

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• I loafe and invite my soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Soul, Invites

  Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.129, Psychology Press

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• Let my soul calm itself, O Christ, in Thee. This is true.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Soul, Calm, Christ

  "Life's Mystery". "The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song". Book by Charlotte Fiske Rogé, p. 544, 1882.

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• My soul is full of whispered song,-My blindness is my sight;The shadows that I feared so longAre full of life and light.

  Alice Cary

  Song, Light, Sight

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• Father, show me how to praise Thee When I seek Thy courts to-day; Guide me by Thy love, and raise me -- Let me feel the words I say. Bless me on this hallowed morning, Bid my soul to Thee draw near; Teach me, and my heart shall listen -- Speak, Lord, and Thy child shall hear.

  Sarah Doudney

  Morning, Children, Father

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• I'd sell my soul to the devil if he'd buy such a weakly, puny, piffling little soul, just really to live and be something besides a "thoroughly nice girl" for one short year.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Girl, Nice, Years

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (2013). “Wanted: A Husband: (With Original Illustrations)”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• My soul is a dark ploughed field In the cold rain; My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain.

  Sara Teasdale

  Pain, Rain, Dark

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.47, Рипол Классик

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• The soul of the river had entered my soul, And the gathered power of my soul was moving So swiftly, it seemed to be at rest Under cities of cloud and under Spheres of silver and changing worlds Until I saw a flash of trumpets Above the battlements over Time!

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Moving, Clouds, Cities

  Edgar Lee Masters (2007). “Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.185, Prestwick House Inc

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• Happy those early days when I Shined in my Angel-infancy. Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white, celestial thought; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love, And looking back (at that short space) Could see a glimpse of His bright face. When on some gilded cloud or flower My gazing soul would dwell an hour And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity.

  Henry Vaughan

  Flower, Angel, First Love

  Silex Scintillans "The Retreat" l. 1 (1650 - 1655)

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• My soul, there is a country Far beyond the stars Where stands a wingèd sentry All skillful in the wars: There, above noise and danger, Sweet Peace is crowned with smiles, And One born in a manger Commands the beauteous files.

  Henry Vaughan

  Country, Sweet, Stars

  'Peace' from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

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• I came upon a child of god, He was walking along the road And I asked him, where are you going And this he told me: "I'm going on down to Yasgur's farm I'm going to join in a rock 'n' roll band I'm going to camp out on the land, I'm going to try an' get my soul free.

  Joni Mitchell

  Children, Land, Rocks

  Joni Mitchell (2009). “Joni Mitchell: Hits: Piano/Vocal/Chords”, p.2, Alfred Music

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• Enough, I shall be understood in ten years by people who will be doing what you do today. Then my geysers will be known, my ice floes will be seen, the secret of adulterating my poisons will have been learned, the games of my soul will be revealed.

  Antonin Artaud

  Years, Ice, Games

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.86, Univ of California Press

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• I came into this world anxious to uncover the meaning of things, my soul desirous to be at origin of the world, and here I am an object among other objects.

  Frantz Fanon

  Here I Am, Soul, World

  Frantz Fanon (2008). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.89, Grove Press

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• Jesu, lover of my soul, Let me to thy bosom fly, While the nearer waters roll, While the tempest still is high; Hide me,O my Saviour, hide, Till the storm of life is past; Safe into the haven guide, O receive my soul at last.

  Charles Wesley

  Past, Water, Soul

  1740 'In Temptation', collected in Hymns and Sacred Poems.

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• My soul is all an aching void.

  Charles Wesley

  Soul, Void

  Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.138, Ravenio Books

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• Awake my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run.

  Thomas Ken

  Running, Soul, Sun

  'Morning Hymn' in Winchester College 'Manual of Prayers' (1695) but in use before 1674

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• Oh, my soul! why art thou so often disquieted within thee? How is it that thou hast so little faith? Wilt thou never learn that Jesus has even the least of His little boats always under His watchful eye, and all the winds and the waves obey Him?

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Jesus, Art, Eye

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 236, 1895.

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• My life is like shattered glass." said the visitor. "My soul is tainted with evil. Is there any hope for me? "Yes," said the Master. "There is something whereby each broken thing is bound again and every stain made clean." "What?" "Forgiveness" "Whom do I forgive?" "Everyone: Life, God, your neighbor especially yourself." "How is that done?" "By understanding that no one is to blame," said the Master. "NO ONE.

  Anthony de Mello

  Glasses, Broken, Evil

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• The night is my best friend. It calms the storm in my soul and it lets the guiding stars rise.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Stars, Night, Soul

  "Michael: a German fate in diary notes". Book by Joseph Goebbels, 1929.

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• My brain's gone, my soul's worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein operated on.

  Eminem

  Soul, Brain, Gone

  Song: Still Don't Give a Fuck

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• I've been influenced heavily by great soul artists. I see myself as a soul singer. I sing from my soul - I write from my soul.

  Robin Thicke

  Writing, Artist, Soul

  "Hot Tracks: Robin Thicke". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November 2013.

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• The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take, If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.

  Ogden Nash

  Sleep, Soul, Praying

  Ogden Nash (1935). “The primrose path”

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• This Bible, then, has a mission, grander than any mere creation of God; for in this volume are infinite wisdom, and infinite love. Between its covers are the mind and heart of God; and they are for man's good, for his salvation, his guidance, his spiritual nourishment. If now I neglect my Bible, I do my soul a wrong; for the fact of this Divine message is evidence that I need it.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Bible, Spiritual, Heart

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• Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven; To his feet thy tribute bring. Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven, Who like me his praise should sing?

  Henry Francis Lyte

  Kings, Feet, Heaven

  1834 'Praise, my Soul, the King of Heaven'.

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• The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

  David

  Lying, Names, Shadow Of Death

  King David of Israel, “Psalm 23: The Lord Is My Shepherd”

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