Dorothea, he said to himself, was for ever enthroned in his soul: no other woman could sit higher than her footstool...
Dorothea, he said to himself, was for ever enthroned in his soul: no other woman could sit higher than her footstool...
The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.
To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
. . . his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic it was too languid to thrill out of self-consciousness into passionate delight it went on fluttering in the swampy ground where it was hatched, thinking of its wings and never flying.
There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the souls path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.
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