SOUL

Related Subjects: Body, Eternity, Judgment Day, Life, Mind, Mortality, Salvation, Spirit

1. What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?—Bible, Matthew 16:26
   

2. This night thy soul shall be required of thee.—Bible, Luke12:20
   

3. I should not dare to call my soul my own.—ELIZABETH B. BROWNING, Aurora Leigh
   

4. O God! it is a fearful thing
   To see the human soul take wing
   In any shape, in any mood.—BYRON, The Prisoner of Chillon
   

5. Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires,—Necessity and Free Will.—CARLYLE, Essays
   

6. The soul of man is larger than the sky,
   Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark
   Of the unfathomed center.—HARTLEY COLERIDGE, To Shakespeare
   

7. The soul selects her own society,
   Then shuts the door.—EMILY DICKINSON, Life
   

8. The Soul's superior instants
   Occur to her alone.—EMILY DICKINSON, The Single Hound
   

9. Froba: Say, Nurse—in a hundred human beings, how many have got souls?
   
   Nurse: It's difficult to say. So many people keep their souls locked up.—GALSWORTHY, The Roof
   

10. Out of the night that covers me,
    Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
    I thank whatever gods may be
    For my unconquerable soul.—W. E. HENLEY, Invictus
    

11. Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
    As the swift seasons roll!
    Leave thy low-vaulted past!
    Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
    Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
    Till thou at length art free,
    Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!—O. W. HOLMES, The Chambered Nautilus
    

12. A Soul of power, a well of lofty Thought
    A chastened Hope that ever points to Heaven.—JOHN HUNTER, A Replication of Rhymes
    

13. Bards of Passion and of Mirth,
    Ye have left your souls on earth!
    Have ye souls in heaven too?—KEATS, Ode
    

14. Great souls are portions of Eternity.—LOWELL, Sonnet VI
    

15. Let not young souls be smothered out before
    They do quaint deeds and fully flaunt their pride.
    It is the world's one crime its babes grow dull,
    Its poor are ox-like, limp and leaden eyed.
    Not that they starve, but starve so dreamlessly,
    Not that they sow, but that they seldom reap,
    Not that they serve, but have no gods to serve,
    Not that they die, but that they die like sheep.—VACHEL LINDSAY, The Leaden-Eyed
    

16. I hold that when a person dies
    His soul returns again to earth;
    Arrayed in some new flesh-disguise
    Another mother gives him birth.
    With sturdier limbs and brighter brain
    The old soul takes the roads again.—JOHN MANSFIELD, A Creed
    

17. Passer by,
    To love is to find your own soul
    Through the soul of the beloved one.—EDGAR LEE MASTERS, Spoon River Anthology
    

18. Now I, an under-tenant of the earth, can see
    That the branches of a tree
    Spread no wider than its roots.
    And how shall the soul of a man
    Be larger than the life he has lived?—EDGAR LEE MASTERS, Spoon River Anthology
    

19. You cannot hide the soul.—HERMAN MELVILLE, Moby Dick
    

20. The soul that feeds on books alone—
    I count that soul exceeding small
    That lives alone by book and creed,—
    A soul that has not learned to read.—JOAQUIN MILLER, The Larger College
    

21. There was a little man, and he had a little soul;
    And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!—THOMAS MOORE, Little Man and Little Soul
    

22. The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.—PLATO, The Republic
    

23. It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out.—POPE, Thoughts on Various Subjects
    

24. The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.—Proverb
    

25. Little bodies have great souls.—Proverb
    

26. Would you damn your precious soul?—RABELAIS
    

27. Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry V
    

28. Now my soul bath elbow-room.—SHAKESPEARE, King John
    

29. It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.—BERNARD SHAW, Heartbreak House
    

30. The soul of man is like the rolling world,
    One half in day, the other dipt in night;
    The one has music and the flying cloud,
    The other, silence and the wakeful stars.—ALEXANDER SMITH, Horton
    

31. The saddest thing that can befall a soul
    Is when it loses faith in God and woman.—ALEXANDER SMITH, A Life Drama
    

32. For of the soule the bodie forme doth take:
    For soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.—EDMUND SPENSER, An Hymne in Honour of Beautie
    

33. Casy! He talked a lot. Says one time he went out in the wilderness to find his own soul, an' he foun' he didn' have no soul that was his'n. Says he foun' he jus' got a little piece of a great big soul. Says a wilderness ain't no good, 'cause his little piece of a soul wasn't no good 'less it was with the rest, an' it was whole.—JOHN STEINBECK, The Grapes of Wrath
    

34. No seed shall perish which the soul hath sown.—J. A. SYMONDS, A Belief
    

35. Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.—HENRY VAN DYKE, The Prison and the Angel
    

36. Of Christian souls more have been wrecked on shore
    Than ever were lost at sea.—C. H. WEBB, With a Nantucket Shell
    

37. What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?—WALT WHITMAN, Laws for Creations
    

38. I loaf and invite my soul.—WALT WHITMAN, Song of Myself
    

39. The windows of my soul I throw Wide open to the sun.—WHITTIER, My Psalm
    

40. The gods approve
    The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.—WORDSWORTH, Laodamia
    

41. Though inland far we be,
    Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
    Which brought us hither.—WORDSWORTH, Ode on Intimations of Immortality