#human soul

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. ↗

— John Ruskin

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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

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Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence. ↗

— David Brainerd

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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. ↗

— George Eliot

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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. ↗

— George Eliot

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

— Simone Weil

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There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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