"Anger is one of the sinews of the soul." — Thomas Fuller

A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul

Source: The Spectator, no. 215 (1711)

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on

Source: In a Balcony (1855)

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:

Source: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Intimations of Immortality

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Source: Poems by Emily Dickinson, Second Series, Hope (1891)

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