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“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.”

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Princess Diana

Princess Diana, full name Diana Frances Spencer, was a member of the British royal family, born on July 1, 1961, and died on August 31, 1997. She is known for her charitable work and her亲和力 with the public. more

“Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying. If all the world be worth the winning, Think, oh think it worth enjoying: Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee.”

Ifs Thinking World Stills War Soul Fighting Winning Enjoy Pleasure Trouble Sweet Empty Lovely Thee Honour Destroying Bubbles Toil Never Ending God Provides

Book:Poetical Works: With a Memoir

Source: Poetical Works: With a Memoir

“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.”

Feels Soul Eye Spiders

Book:Marriage A-La-Mode

Source: Marriage A-La-Mode

“He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . . He was naturally learn'd; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there. . . . He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating in to clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some occasion is presented to him.”

Men Book Soul Found Modern He Man Serious Poet Needed Ancient Wit Comic Occasions Flats Comprehensive Spectacles Swelling Insipid

Author:John Dryden

“Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.”

Soul Desire Rage Kindles

Book:Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]

Source: Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]

“A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay: And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms...”

Way Soul Body Danger Wave Work Out Storm Pilots Daring Decay Clay Fiery Extremity Tenements

Author:John Dryden

“This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind.”

Mind Soul Goal Secret Phrases March Pilgrimage

Author:John Drinkwater

“If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do.”

Ifs Two Soul Shows Moving Feet Twins Compass Firmness Thinness

Book:The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life

Source: The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life

“Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.”

Two Soul Beats Gold Endure Expansion Breach Firmness Airy Two Souls Thinness

Author:John Donne

“Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!”

Soul Poor Perplexed

Author:John Donne

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