"Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will."

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"Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will."

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"Worship is transcendent wonder."

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"Work alone is noble."

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"Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen."

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"Wonder is the basis of worship."

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"Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is."

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"No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes."

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"When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent."

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"Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another."

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"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."

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"Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects."

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"You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American Athlete

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"I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!"

Ansel Adams, American Photographer

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"There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye."

Lord Acton, British Historian

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"Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it."

Akhenaton, Egyptian Statesman

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"The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little."

William R. Alger, American Writer

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"After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer."

William R. Alger, American Writer

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"Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command."

Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher

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"The only substance properly so called is the soul."

Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher

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"It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes."

Guillaume Apollinaire, French Novelist

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"A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul."

Minna Antrim, American Writer

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