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119 quotesThe noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
Ambition
Marcus T. Cicero
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Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.
Rewards
E. V. Cooke
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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
Self-sacrifice
Margaret Deland
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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.
Love
Alexis Delp
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I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.
Choice
Princess of Wales Diana
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I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world look after me.
Spirit and Spirituality
Princess of Wales Diana
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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.
Death and Dying
Emily Dickinson
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
Death and Dying
John Dryden
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Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
Excellence
George Eliot
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Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Critics and Criticism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.
Security
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
Spirit and Spirituality
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
Grief
Sufi Epigram
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The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
Widowhood
John Gay
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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Friends and Friendship
Kahlil Gibran
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His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones.
Spirit and Spirituality
Oliver St. John Gogarty
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Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.
Heaven
Emma Goldman
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The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Francois (Pierre Guillaume) Guizot
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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.
Competition
Janet Guthrie
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
Humankind
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
Inferiority
George Herbert
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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
Freedom
Herbert Clark Hoover
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Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
Conscience
Doug Horton
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Human Rights
Victor Hugo
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There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
Human Spirit
Hubert H. Humphrey
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun