#soul

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#believe #chain #compel #disbelieve #ever

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#foreign #foreign policy #human #human rights #our

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room. ↗

— Ray Charles

#force #know #light #like #really

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean. ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#clean #fast #fat #his #lean

Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#body #connection #contagion #could #detained

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#brevity #dwarfish #epigram #soul #whole

True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#await #born #i #i am #nobly

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything. ↗

— Don Cornelius

#barry #barry white #disco #forever #going

Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#disappointment #love #soul #tragedies #love

CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything. ↗

— Evan Dando

#cds #cheap #corporate #look #real