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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

— Edward Young

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Soul, soul is nothing. Can you see it, smell it, touch it? No.

— Dan Totheroh

A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.

— Ray Charles

The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.

— Saint Augustine

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

— Michel de Montaigne

✗Opposing Perspectives

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.

— Sophocles

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

— Daniel Defoe

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The soul has many motions, body one.

— Theodore Roethke