"The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate" — John Locke

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings

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

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

Source: In a Balcony (1855)

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

Source: The Spectator, no. 215 (1711)

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)

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Source: Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,

Source: Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself (1892 edition)

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