Great souls are harmonious. [ Joseph Roux ]
Parsons are souls' waggoners. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Souls dwell in printer's type. [ Joseph Ames ]
Great souls endure in silence. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
The tidal wave of deepest souls
Into our inmost being rolls,
And lifts us unawares
Out of all meaner cares. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Ah, the souls of those that die
Are but sunbeams lifted higher. [ Longfellow ]
Kings have no power over souls. [ Proverb ]
Little bodies have great souls. [ Proverb ]
Thought is deeper than all speech.
Feeling deeper than all thought;
Souls to souls can never teach
What unto themselves was taught. [ C. P. Cranch ]
Little souls on little shifts rely. [ John Dryden ]
Noble souls, through dust and heat.
Rise from disaster and defeat
The stronger;
And conscious still of the divine
Within them, lie on earth supine
No longer. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
O, weary hearts! O, slumbering eyes!
O, drooping souls whose destinies
Are fraught with fear and pain,
Ye shall be loved again! [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]
Great souls love, weak souls desire. [ Mme. de Krudener ]
Music waves eternal wands, -
Enchantress of the souls of mortals! [ E. C. Stedman ]
Sweet souls around us watch us still,
Press nearer to our side;
Into our thoughts, into our prayers,
With gentle helpings glide. [ Harriet Beecher Stowe ]
Base souls have no faith in great men. [ Rousseau ]
Sensitive souls live more than others. [ Duclos ]
More than kisses, letters mingle souls. [ Donne ]
But noble souls, through dust and heat,
Rise from disaster and defeat
The stronger. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Sifting Of Peter ]
Strong souls, within the present live.
The future veiled, the past forgot;
Grasping what is, with hands of steel,
They bind what shall be, to their will. [ Lewis Morris ]
Great souls care only for what is great. [ Amiel ]
Above the vulgar flight of common souls. [ Arthur Murphy ]
Now from the world,
Sacred to sweet retirement, lovers steal,
And pour their souls in transport. [ Thomson ]
These are the times that try men's souls. [ Thomas Paine ]
There is in souls a sympathy with pounds. [ Cowper ]
Though inland far we be,
Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
Which brought us hither. [ Wordsworth ]
There are no twin souls in God's universe. [ J. G. Holland ]
Generosity is but the pity of noble souls. [ Chamfort ]
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds;
How soft the music of those village bells.
Falling at intervals upon the ear,
In cadence sweet, now dying all away. [ Cowper ]
Great souls are not cast down by adversity. [ Proverb ]
Ah, Christ, that it were possible
For one short hour to see
The souls we loved, that they might tell us
What and where they be. [ Tennyson ]
The devil is always buying our souls of us. [ Proverb ]
Great souls by instinct to each other turn,
Demand alliance, and in friendship burn. [ Addison ]
Literature is the thought of thinking souls. [ Carlyle ]
Two souls in one, two hearts into one heart! [ Du Bartas ]
Now God be praised, that to believing souls,
Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair! [ William Shakespeare ]
There is no remedy for time misspent,
No healing for the waste of idleness,
Whose very languor is a punishment,
Heavier than active souls can feel or guess. [ Sir Aubrey de Vere ]
Death rides in triumph, - fell destruction
Lashes his fiery horse, and round about hint
His many thousand ways to let out souls. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
Greatness, thou gaudy torment of our souls,
The wise man's fetter and the rage of fools. [ Otway ]
And rest at last where souls unbodied dwell.
In ever-flowing meads of Asphodel. [ Homer ]
Can so much gall find access in devout souls? [ Boileau ]
Though absent, present in desires they be;
Our souls much further than our eyes can see. [ Drayton ]
Privileged souls rank on a level with princes. [ Frederick the Great ]
To dwell alone is the fate of all great souls. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
Intemperance weaves the windingsheet of souls. [ John B. Gough ]
There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls. [ William Shakespeare ]
Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls. [ William Shakespeare ]
That's the greatest torture souls feel in hell.
In hell, that they must live, and cannot die. [ John Webster ]
There are things
Which make revenge a virtue by reflection,
And not an impulse of mere anger; though
The laws sleep, justice wakes, and injured souls
Oft do a public right with private wrong. [ Byron ]
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch
Is God's fair bride, and maidens' souls are such. [ Decker ]
Feeble souls always set to work at the wrong time. [ Cardinal de Reiz ]
Rage is the shortest passion of our souls:
Like narrow brooks, that rise with sudden showers,
It swells in haste, and falls again as soon. [ Rowe ]
Great souls attract sorrow as mountains do storms. [ Richter ]
There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murders in this loathsome world.
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell,
I sell thee poison, thou hast sold me none. [ William Shakespeare ]
Generous souls are still most subject to credulity. [ Sir W. Davenant ]
The world is a great poem, and the world's
The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts. [ Bailey ]
The times are bad, yet there are still great souls. [ Körner ]
Still all great souls still make their own content;
We to ourselves may all our wishes grant;
For, nothing coveting, we nothing want. [ Dryden ]
Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse. [ Halen ]
Gold, worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murder in this loathsome world,
Than these poor compounds that thou may'st not sell. [ Shakespeare ]
Love is the joining of two souls on their way to God. [ J. M. Barrie ]
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls;
Who steals my purse steals trash;
'Tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name,
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed. [ William Shakespeare ]
Worth begets in base minds envy; in great souls, emulation. [ Fielding ]
And if ye only trust yourselves, other souls will trust you. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth. [ Victor Hugo ]
He that hath charge of souls transports them not in bundles. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Worth begets in base minds envy, but in brave souls emulation. [ Proverb ]
Prosperity has damned more souls than all the devils together. [ Proverb ]
Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God. [ Confucius ]
Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls. [ E. de Girardin ]
If there was no future life, our souls would not thirst for it. [ Richter ]
Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them. [ Madame Swetchine ]
Friendship is the gift of heaven, and the delight of great souls. [ Voltaire ]
Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls. [ William Shakespeare ]
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. [ Rousseau ]
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable. [ Joubert ]
Men possessing small souls are generally the authors of great evils. [ Goethe ]
'Tis the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good. [ Sophocles ]
Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]
How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns! [ Thomas Brooks ]
O, there is naught on earth worth being known but God and our own souls! [ Bailey ]
If our bodies were to cost no more than our souls, we might board cheap. [ Proverb ]
I am young, it is true; but in noble souls, valor does not wait for years. [ Corneille ]
In delicate souls, love never presents itself but under the veil of esteem. [ Mme. Roland ]
Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls. [ Voltaire ]
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise. [ Novalis ]
It is our souls which are the everlastingness of God's purpose in this earth. [ William Mountford ]
Procrastination is the kidnapper of souls and the recruiting-officer of hell. [ Edward Irving ]
The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing. [ William Law ]
New national pride will stir our souls, lift our sights, and heal our divisions. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]
A lamp is lit in woman's eye, that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by. [ N. P. Willis ]
Revenge, that thirsty dropsy of our souls, makes us covet that which hurts us most. [ Massinger ]
We men are but poor, weak souls, after all; women beat us out and out in fortitude. [ Charles Buxton ]
Weak souls are capable of only weak sentiments; strong souls of powerful sentiments. [ Balzac ]
Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God. [ Balzac ]
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. [ Socrates ]
All women are fond of minds that inhabit fine bodies, and of souls that have fine eyes. [ J. Joubert ]
Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are the portions of eternity. [ Lowell ]
Two souls, alas! dwell in my breast; the one struggles to separate itself from the other. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Faust." ]
Eat not thy heart; which forbids to afflict our souls, and waste them with vexatious cares. [ Plutarch ]
Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest, and some by souls. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world. [ Mrs. E. B. Browning ]
Love is the passion of great souls: it makes them merit glory, when it does not turn their heads. [ Mme. de Pompadour ]
The quivering flesh, though torture-torn, may live, but souls, once deeply wounded, heal no more. [ Ebenezer Elliott ]
Gold, like the sun, which melts wax and hardens clay, expands great souls and contracts bad hearts. [ Rivarol ]
Nothing so effectively baffles the schemes of evil men so much as the calm composure of great souls. [ Mirabeau ]
Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise. [ Chapin ]
The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames. [ J. G. Holland ]
Heaven's above all; and there be souls that must be saved, and there be souls that must not be saved. [ William Shakespeare ]
Noble art is nothing less than the expression of a great soul; and great souls are not common things. [ John Ruskin ]
Nothing so effectively disconcerts the schemes of sinister people as the tranquillity of great souls. [ Mirabeau ]
If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state. [ Tillotson ]
Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choice of good or evil we have made through life. [ J. C. Geikie ]
In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. [ Channing ]
Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise. [ Carlyle ]
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. [ Jesus ]
Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]
There are profound sorrows which remain stored in our souls, and which we always find there when we are melancholy. [ Mme. de Salm ]
Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland. [ Kingsley ]
Paradise must be a tiresome place if it is peopled only by those saintly souls whose company we so dread here below. [ De Finod ]
Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful. [ Bishop Hall ]
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littlenesses, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies. [ Balzac ]
O form! how oft dost thou with thy case, thy habit, wrench awe from fools, and tie the wiser souls to thy false seeming! [ William Shakespeare ]
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than the common, but those only who have greater designs. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man. [ Heine ]
Great souls are not those which have less passion and more virtue than common souls, but only those which have greater designs. [ La Roche ]
Alas! alas! why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; and he that might the vantage best have took found out the remedy. [ William Shakespeare ]
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own. [ John Dryden ]
O place! O form, how often dost thou with thy case, thy habit, wrench awe from fools, and tie the wiser souls to thy false seeming! [ William Shakespeare ]
Balm that tames all anguish, saint that evil thoughts and aims takest away, and into souls dost creep, like to a breeze from heaven. [ Wordsworth ]
Only if the spirit of man were not free, would the thought be a great one that there is a monarch of thought who rules over our souls. [ Platen ]
Tendency to sentimental whining or fierce intolerance may be ranked among the surest symptoms of little souls and inferior intellects. [ Jeffrey ]
You will find rest unto your souls when first you take on you the yoke of Christ, but joy only when you have borne it as long as He wills. [ John Ruskin ]
Crows pick out the eyes of the dead when they are no longer of any use. But flatterers destroy the souls of the living by blinding their eyes. [ Maximus ]
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth which God has set in all men's souls. [ Lowell ]
Great souls attract sorrows as mountains do storms. But the thunder-clouds break upon them, and they thus form a shelter for the plains around. [ Jean Paul ]
Friendship and love require the deepest and most entire confidence, but souls of a high character demand not communications of a familiar nature. [ Humboldt ]
God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls. [ Massillon ]
There comes a time when the souls of human beings, women more even than men, begin to faint for the atmosphere of the affections they are made to breathe. [ Holmes ]
Our souls, piercing through the impurity of flesh, behold the highest heaven, and thence bring knowledge to contemplate the ever-during glory and termless joy. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]
The poet's delicate ear hears the far-off whispers of eternity, which coarser souls must travel towards for scores of years before their dull sense is touched by them. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
Urge them while their souls are capable of this ambition, lest zeal, now melted by the windy breath of soft petitions, pity and remorse, cool and congeal again to what it was. [ William Shakespeare ]
O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea. Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam. Survey our empire, and behold our home! [ Byron ]
Our souls sit close and silently within. And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch. [ Dryden ]
That souls which are created for one another so seldom find each other and are generally divided, that in the moments of happiest union least recognise each other - that is a sad riddle! [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
He that falls into sin, is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil; yet some glory in that shame, counting the stains of sin the best complexion of their souls. [ Fuller ]
As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies from the high and lively agitations of our souls. [ Montaigne ]
At the last, when we die, we have the dear angels for our escort on the way. They who can grasp the whole world in their hands can surely also guard our souls, that they make that last journey safely. [ Luther ]
Gold is called the bait of sin, the snare of souls, and the hook of death; which being aptly applied may be compared to a fire, whereof a little is good to warm one, but too much will burn him altogether. [ Sir R. Filmer ]
I consider beyond all wealth, honor, or even health, is the attachment due to noble souls; because to become one with the good, generous, and true, is to be, in a manner, good, generous, and true yourself. [ Dr. Arnold ]
There is, I know not how, in the minds of men, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls. [ Cicero ]
A talisman that shall turn base metal into precious, Nature acknowledges not; but a talisman to turn base souls into noble, Nature has given us; and that is a philosopher's stone,
but it is a stone which the builders refuse. [ John Ruskin ]
Under the sky is no uglier spectacle than two men with clenched teeth and hell-fire eyes hacking one another's flesh, converting precious living bodies and priceless living souls into nameless masses of putrescence, useful only for turnip manure. [ Carlyle ]
Why does the evening, does the night, put warmer love in our hearts? Is it the nightly pressure of helplessness? or is it the exalting separation from the turmoils of life - that veiling of the world in which for the soul nothing then remains but souls? [ Richter ]
There are few souls who are so vigorously organized as to be able to maintain themselves in the calm of a strong resolve: all honest consciences are capable of the generosity of a day, but almost all succumb the next morning under the effort of the sacrifice. [ George Sand ]
The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see: and sight must be reinforced by insight before souls can be discerned as well as manners, ideas as well as objects, realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections. [ Whipple ]
Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise - the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
We meet with few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between, these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth. [ La Bruyere ]
Why doth Fate, that often bestows thousands of souls on a conqueror or tyrant, to be the sport of his passions, so often deny to the tenderest and most feeling hearts one kindred one on which to lavish their affections? Why is it that Love must so often sigh in vain for an object, and Hate never? [ Richter ]
Friendship is one of the greatest boons God can bestow on man. It is a union of our finest feelings; an uninteresting binding of hearts, and a sympathy between two souls. It is an indefinable trust we repose in one another, a constant communication between two minds, and an unremitting anxiety for each other's souls. [ J. Hill ]
If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal souls, if we imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and love of fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something which will brighten all eternity. [ Daniel Webster ]
There is no more potent antidote to low sensuality than the adoration of the beautiful. All the higher arts of design are essentially chaste without respect to the object. They purify the thoughts as tragedy purifies the passions. Their accidental effects are not worth consideration, - there are souls to whom even a vestal is not holy. [ Schlegel ]
All are to be men of genius in their degree, - rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear and pure; not dead walls encompassing dead heaps of things, known and numbered, but running waters in the sweet wilderness of things unnumbered and unknown, conscious only of the living banks, on which they partly refresh and partly reflect the flowers, and so pass on. [ Ruskin ]
If flowers have souls,
said Undine, the bees, whose nurses they are, must seem to them darling children at the breast. I once fancied a paradise for the spirits of departed flowers.
They go,
answered I, not into paradise, but into a middle state; the souls of lilies enter into maidens' foreheads, those of hyacinths and forget-me-nots dwell in their eyes, and those of roses in their lips.
[ Richter ]
You can throw yourselves away. You can become of no use in the universe except for a warning. You can lose your souls. Oh, what a loss is that! The perversion and degradation of every high and immortal power for an eternity! And shall this be true of any one of you? Will you be lost when One has come from heaven, traveling in the greatness of His strength, and with garments dyed in blood, on purpose to guide you home - home to a Father's house - to an eternal home? [ Mark Hopkins ]
Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose in agitation, as children do by being rocked in a cradle. They may pronounce themselves as serviceable to their friends as troublesome to themselves. No one distributes his money to others, but every one therein distributes his time and his life. There is nothing of which we are so prodigal as of those two things, of which to be thrifty would be both commendable and useful. [ Montaigne ]
What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labors to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard. [ Charles Lamb ]
Two things a master commits to his servant's care - the child and the child's clothes. It will be a poor excuse for the servant to say, at his master's return, Sir, here are all the child's clothes, neat and clean, but the child is lost.
Much so of the account that many will give to God of their souls and bodies at the great day. Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for my soul, that is lost and cast away forever. I took little care and thought about it.
[ John Flavel ]