#souls

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#enemy #foe #god #look #only

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#begets #emulation #envy #great #great souls

There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#indeed #love #many #soul #souls

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#extravagance #more #ruined #souls #than

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#gold #helping #into #paradise #possesses

Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being. ↗

— Dale Turner

#being #determined #everything #influence #length

This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#compelled #feels #i #imagine #like

Now that her spirit had left, I’d thought she would feel light. Then I realized it was the spirit that carries the weight of the body and not the other way around. ↗

— Jessica Maria Tuccelli

#souls #spirit #death

The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity; and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#death #levity #poison #souls #death

It was safe to assume he'd not only read the play but then re-read it, cross-referenced the annotations, and probably joined an online chat group called Buds of the Bard or something equally nerdy ↗

— Simon Holt

#simon-holt #soulstice #equality