Quote by Oscar Wilde
How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul i

How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver. – Oscar Wilde

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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. – Oscar Wilde

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If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it. – Oscar Wilde

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We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Quotation and Originality,” Letters and Social Aims, 1876

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The defects of the soul are like wounds in the body — whatever care one takes to heal, the scar still appears, and they are every moment in danger of reopening. – François VI de la Rochefoucault (1613–1680)

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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love. – Thomas Carlyle

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I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time. – Carl Jung

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In charity there is no excess. – Francis Bacon

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