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“Through incarnations, some beings do go down. That is to say, they forget. The soul falls into an eclipse of itself and there is a downward progression for a time.”

Soul Fall Forget Reincarnation Incarnation Progression Eclipse

Author:Frederick Lenz

“War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.”

War Soul Whole Eye Mother Sound Dark Forget Streets Sweet Broken Wet Widows Butchery Wet Eyes

Author:Seneca the Younger

“We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth-- 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.”

Book Soul Helping Reading Forget Profound Profit Salt Plunge Calculating Impassioned

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.”

Soul Forget Equal Vanity

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.”

Soul Funny Hate Forget Enemy Mad Golf Hate You Funny Golf Good Golf Golf Love

Author:Will Rogers

“Breathes there a man with soul so dead that it does not glow at the thought of what the men of his blood have done and suffered to make his country what it is? There is room, plenty of room, for proper pride of land and birth. What I inveigh against is a cursed spirit of intolerance, conceived in distrust and bred in ignorance, that makes the mental attitude perennially antagonistic, even bitterly antagonistic, to everything foreign, that subordinates everywhere the race to the nation, forgetting the higher claims of human brotherhood.”

Source: Aequanimitas, and Other Papers that Have Stood the Test of Time. [With an Introd. by Paul Dudley White]

“It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.”

Ifs World Way Soul Whole Loses Forget Gains Sticks Fingers Whole World Your Soul Prudent Slipping

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives--when the slow urgency of growing generations turns into the tread of an invading army or the dire clash of civil war, and grey fathers know nothing to seek for but the corpses of their blooming sons, and girls forget all vanity to make lint and bandages which may serve for the shattered limbs of their betrothed husbands.”

Source: Daniel Deronda

“The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.”

Soul Peace Forget Grief Morning Sky Sunset Showers Transient

Book:The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume I: Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic

Source: The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume I: Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic

“If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their energy or their natural genius, if instead of deadening their vivacity of mind we tried to elevate the free scope and impulse of their souls, what might not result from a fine disposition? As it is, we forget that courage, or love of truth and glory are the virtues that matter most in youth; and our one endeavour is to subdue our children's spirits, in order to teach them that dependence and suppleness are the first laws of success in life.”

“Paint here no draped despairs, no saddening clouds, Where the soul rests, proclaims eternity. But let the wrong cry out as raw as wounds, This Time forgets and never heals, far less transcends.”

Soul Forget Cry Despair Eternity Paint Clouds Wounds Heal Saddening

Author:Stephen Spender

“Ignorance is mere privation by which nothing can be produced: it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction: and, without knowing why, we always rejoice when we learn, and grieve when we forget.”

Want Soul Forget Knowing Ignorance Mere Attraction Grieving Rejoice Vacuity

Book:Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia

Source: Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia

“Friends given by God in mercy and in love; My counsellors, my comforters, and guides; My joy in grief, my second bliss in joy; Companions of my young desires; in doubt My oracles; my wings in high pursuit. Oh! I remember, and will ne'er forget Our meeting spots, our chosen sacred hours; Our burning words, that utter'd all the soul, Our faces beaming with unearthly love;-- Sorrow with sorrow sighing, hope with hope Exulting, heart embracing heart entire.”

“Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. God loves a cheerful giver. She gives most who gives with joy.”

People Way Giving Heart Soul Shows Joy Christ Prayer Forget Results Accepting Sorrow Gratitude Best Way Burning Inevitable God Love Joyful Cheerful Giver Risen Gratitude To God Joyful Heart

Author:Mother Teresa