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“Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music lest it should not find An echo in another's mind.”

Men Needs Should Mind Soul Nature Towns Silent Woods Wilderness Echoes

Author:John Updike

“Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.”

Soul Facts Faces Truth Is Towns Your Soul Gossip

Author:Conor Oberst

“Social dissipation, as witnessed in the ball-room, is the abettor of pride, the instigator of jealousy, it is the sacrificial altar of health, it is the defiler of the soul, it is the avenue of lust and it is the curse of every town in America.”

Soul America Social Rooms Pride Balls Towns Dancing Lust Curse Avenues Altars Dissipation Instigators

Author:Thomas De Witt Talmage

“Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.”

Soul Cities Bird Towns Prison Beast Pounds Cages

Author:Pierre Charron

“Mr. Mum's Rudesheimer And the church of St. Geryon Are the two things alone That deserve to be known In the body-and-soul-stinking town of Cologne.”

Two Soul Body Church Known Deserve Towns Two Things Mum Cologne

Book:On the Constitution of the Church and State

Source: On the Constitution of the Church and State

“Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of thehighest grade, and libraries, and countless circles in our towns and villages of scholarly, leisurely folk, who loved books, and music, and Nature, and lived much apart with them. The mad craze for money, which clutches at our souls to-day as la grippe does at our bodies, was hardly known then.”

Doe Book Soul Country Body Culture Money Known Teacher Birth Intellectual Towns Mad Library Folks Circles Desert Grades Village Clutch Scholarly Our Town Craze Books And Music

Author:Rebecca Harding Davis

“He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark rocks where the phosphorescent seacrabs clambered back. Passing through the salt grass he looked back. The horse had not moved. A ship's light winked in the swells. The colt stood against the horse with its head down and the horse was watching, out there past men's knowing, where the stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.”

Men Soul Light Past Stars Black Dark Knowing Sea Rocks Horse Towns Down And Moved Rose Passing Passings Ships Grass Salt Drowning Whales Passing Through Seamless Ferry Colts

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“My parents were real classic rock freaks, so I heard a lot of Zeppelin, Stones, Hendrix stuff. Thankfully, they were also into lots of old soul, too, so we listened to Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind & Fire and War. I was so isolated where I grew up (a small town in Pennsylvania) that there was literally no culture.”

War Real Soul Earth Culture Stuff Parent Wonder Fire Heard Rocks Wind Grew Grew Up Stones Towns Classic Freak Isolated Small Town Pennsylvania Hendrix Zeppelins Old Soul Classic Rock

Author:Princess Superstar

“What was said about all of us? We're stupid. You'll never work in a town again. How do you look your four children in the eye? You've sold your soul. You know, it went on and on.”

Knows Looks Children Said Soul Eye Four Stupid Towns Our Children Your Soul

Author:Kellyanne Conway

“Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.”

“The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against one, you can feel the vibration from the wires deep within the wood, as if souls had been imprisoned in there and were struggling to get out.”

Ifs Knows Feels Soul Hands Seems Struggle Towns Lays Woods Telephones Wire Vibrations Deep Within

Author:Stephen King

“What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul.”

Knows May Book Soul Towns Bookstores Bookshops American Gods

Author:Neil Gaiman

“One day he said, "I'll tell this town How it feels to be an unfunny clown." And he told them all why he looked so sad, And he told them all why he felt so bad. He told of Pain and Rain and Cold, He told of Darkness in his soul, And after he finished his tale of woe, Did everyone cry? Oh no, no, no, They laughed until they shook the trees... And while the world laughed outside. Cloony the Clown sat down and cried.”

World Feels Said Soul Pain Felt Darkness Tree Cry Cold One Day Rain Towns Down And Finished Tales Sat Laughed Cried Woe Clown So Sad

Author:Shel Silverstein

“For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart.”

Heart Soul Mother My Heart Sitting Sight Towns Angry Weather Ice My Soul Layers

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Like so many pilgrims before us, we kneel in wonder and adoration before the ineffable mystery which. was accomplished here... In This Child - the Son who is given to us - we find rest for our souls and the true bread that never fails - the Eucharistic Bread foreshadowed even in the name of this town: Bethlehem, the house of bread. God lies hidden in the Child; divinity lies hidden in the Bread of Life”

Children Soul Lying House Names Given Wonder Failing Mystery Son Towns Bread Accomplished Divinity Sacraments Adoration Pilgrim Ineffable Bethlehem Eucharistic Bread Of Life

Author:Pope John Paul II