Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

The soul is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set in night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere. Goethe.

The soul is not where it lives, but where it 15 loves. Pr.

The soul knows no persons. Emerson.

The soul may be trusted to the end. Emerson.

The soul moralises the past in order not to be demoralised by it, and finds in the crucible of experience only the gold that she herself has poured into it. Amiel.

The soul of a man can by no agency, of men or of devils, be lost and ruined but by his own only. Carlyle.

The soul of man is a mirror of the mind of God. 20 Ruskin.

The soul reveals itself in the voice only.... It is audible, not visible. Longfellow.

The soul shut up in her dark room, / Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing; / But, like a mole in earth, busy and blind, / Works all her folly up, and casts it outward / To the world's open view. Dryden.

The soul, / The particle of God sent down to man, / Which doth in turn reveal the world and God. Lewis Morris.