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This ae nighte, this ae nighte
Every nighte and all;
Fire and sleete, and candle lighte
And Christe receive thye saule.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Lyke-Wake Dirge (vol. III, p. 163), in Scott's "Minstrelsy of the Border" (T.F. Henderson's edition)
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Today the journey is ended,
I have worked out the mandates of fate;
Naked, along, undefended,
I knock at the Uttermost Gate.
Behind is life and its longing,
Its trial, its trouble, its sorrow,
Beyond is the Infinite Morning
Of a day without a tomorrow.
Author: Wenonah Stevens Abbott
Source: A Soul's Soliloquy
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: in the "Spectator", no. 215
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But thou shall flourish in immortal youth,
Unhurt amidst the wars of elements,
The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato (act V, sc. 1)
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And see all sights from pole to pole
And glance, and nod, and bustle by,
And never once possess our soul
Before we die.
Author: Matthew Arnold
Source: A Southern Night (st. 18)
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But each day brings from its pretty dust
Our soon choked souls to fill.
Author: Matthew Arnold
Source: Switzerland (pt. VI)
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried
along to dwell in the blood.
[Lat., Anima certe, quia spiritus, in sicco habitare non potest;
ideo in sanguine fertur habitare.]
Author: Saint Aurelius Augustine
Source: Decretum (IX, 32, 2)
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A soul as white as Heaven.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: The Maid's Tragedy (act IV, sc. 1)
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And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for
many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Author: Bible
Source: Luke (ch. XII, v. 19)
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In your patience possess ye your souls.
Author: Bible
Source: Luke (ch. XXI, v. 19)
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For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and
lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his
soul?
Author: Bible
Source: Matthew (ch. XVI, v. 26)
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The iron entered into his soul.
Author: Bible
Source: in the "Psalter", Psalms (ch. CV, v. 18)
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My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. CXIX, v. 109)
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John Brown's body lies a mould'ring in the grave,
His soul goes marching on.
Author: Thomas Brigham Bishop
Source: John Brown's Body
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And I have written three books on the soul,
Proving absurd all written hitherto,
And putting us to ignorance again.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: Cleon
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And he that makes his soul his surety,
I think, does give the best security.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 203)
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The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Childe Harold (canto II, st. 6)
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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light
and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting
hostile empires, Necessity and Freewill.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Essays--Goethe's Works
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark
its intentions.
[Lat., Imago animi vultus est, indices oculi.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Oratore (III, 59)
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From the looks--not the lips, is the soul reflected.
Author: M'Donald Clarke ("The Mad Poet")
Source: The Rejected Lover
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The soul of man is larger than the sky,
Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark
Of the unfathomed centre.
Author: Hartley Coleridge
Source: Poems--To Shakespeare
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My father was an eminent button-maker at Birmingham, . . . but I
had a soul above buttons.
Author: George Colman ("The Younger")
Source: Sylvester Daggerwood (act I)
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A happy soul, that all the way
To heaven hath a summer's day.
Author: Richard Crashaw
Source: In Praise of Lessius' Rule of Health (l. 33)
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A fiery soul, which, working out its way,
Fretted the pygmy-body to decay,
And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 156)
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Lord of oneself, uncumbered with a name.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Epistle to John Dryden
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