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“My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside... the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.”

World Soul Self Whole Feelings Fall My Own Existence Cases Elements Circles Whole World Sensations Surround Peculiar Spheres My Thoughts Opaque

Author:F. H. Bradley

“Nature that framed us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.”

“There is no surer mark of a low and unregenerate nature than this tendency of power to loudness and wantonness instead of quietness and reverence. To souls baptized in Christian nobleness the largest sphere of command is but a wider empire of obedience, calling them, not to escape from holy rule, but to its full impersonation.”

Soul Christian Power Holy Calling Lows Mark Command Tendencies Obedience Empires Spheres Reverence Quietness Baptized Baptized In

Author:James Martineau

“Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.”

Men Soul Moving Devotion Spheres

Author:John Donne

“The soul of the river had entered my soul, And the gathered power of my soul was moving So swiftly, it seemed to be at rest Under cities of cloud and under Spheres of silver and changing worlds Until I saw a flash of trumpets Above the battlements over Time!”

World Soul Moving Cities Saws Rivers Clouds My Soul Changing The World Silver Spheres Flash Trumpets

Book:Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic

Source: Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic