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"Fire is the spirit of candle and honesty is the spirit of man. Without spirit, there shall be no light but darkness" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer." »Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 381
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"spirit is living, and Life is spirit, and Life and spirit produce all things, but they are essentially one and not two." »H Hahn Blavatsky
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"No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them." »Aristotle
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"The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age." »Nadia Boulanger
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"You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit." »Demosthenes
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"The Holy spirit makes a man a Christian, and if he is a Christian through the work of the Holy spirit, that same spirit draws him to other Christians in the church. An individual Christian is not Christian at all." »R. Brokhoff
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"Your mind is your spirit; do not seek any other hidden soul inside you! All is in the brain! The depiction of a spirit rising to the sky is no more real than a medieval Scandinavian fairytales!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection." »Oprah Winfrey
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"The wise should surrender speech in mind, mind in the knowing self, the knowing self in the spirit of the universe, and the spirit of the universe in the spirit of peace." »Maitri Upanishads
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"A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond." »John Milton
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"...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." »John Milton
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"A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member." »Johathan Edwards
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"The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit." »Bible
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"We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators." »Neville Chamberlain
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"In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism." »Charles M. Schwab
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"The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds." »Sankara
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"There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit." »Napoleon Bonaparte
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"Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and vivacity. It is an important word for those who would lead, because above all things, spirit and vivacity set effective organizations apart from those that will decline and die." »James L. Hayes
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"Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation -- what are they They are the happiest people in the world." »William Lyon Phelps
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"We thank you, Almighty God, for the gift of water. Over it the Holy spirit moved in the beginning of creation. Through it you led the children of Israel out of their bondage in Egypt into the land of promise. In it your Son Jesus received the baptism of John and we are buried with Christ in his death. By it we share in his resurrection. Through it we are reborn by the Holy spirit." »Book of Common Prayer
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"For Scripture is the school of the Holy spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress." »John Calvin
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"What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls "grace" from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call "rigtheousness."" »Victor Hugo
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"Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil." »Plato
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"Being filled with the Holy spirit, then, is a matter of obedience to the Word of God. The filling of the spirit that all experienced at Pentecost was a matter of a promise being fulfilled. Today, the believer is to be filled in obedience to the command of Ephesians 518, continuously, not merely by a single, crisis experience. The Christian life is a growth process toward maturity." »Clarence Cramer
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"But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette." »James Grover Thurber
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"You, the spirit of the Settlement ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries..." »Israel Zangwill
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"A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender." »Jim Bishop
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"The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others." »William Lyon Phelps
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"That man is good who does good to others if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further it is heroic, it is perfect." »La Bruyere
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