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“There are those of poor spirit and there are those of great spirit. None are without it but the flame flickers pretty low in some cases. The majority of people seem to be nothing but a little flick...”
“It is not good for the spirits to dwell on that which cannot be altered.”
“Look at the sky. Does its sapphire hue dim when you take a single breath? Are the stars drawn closer when you weep? The sky cannot be diminished so. Thus it is with the spirit: it is a thing withou...”
“We are snared into doing things for which we get called names, and things for which we get hanged, and yet the spirit may well survive - survive the condemnations, survive the halter, by Jove! And ...”
“Spirit is a tangible substance.”
“With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.”
“Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.”
“The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.”
“The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.”
“Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.”
“The spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak.”
“Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.”
“But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.”
“Water is sufficient...the spirit moves over water.”
“He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out of him but he was yet walking.”
“Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is around us, for it is everywhere.”
“And a man said, speak to us of self-knowledge.and he answered, saying:Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge...”
