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It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world… but for Wales! – Robert Bolt

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Moralitys not practical. Moralitys a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books. – Robert Bolt

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Morals
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When a man takes an oath…,hes holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he neednt hope to find himself again. – Robert Bolt

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Promises
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Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. – Robert Bolt

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Death
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Upturned toward the sun, eyes closed. That color and warmth I see and feel is the soul on fire. If only it remained when again my eyes opened. – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com

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Soul

Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve. – Joan Borysenko

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Soul

I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Soul
[D]ivine Providence… keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul… – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nominalist and Realist”

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Soul

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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. – Jonathan Edwards

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The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. – Mohammed

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