"More than kisses, letters mingle souls" — John Donne

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)

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

Source: In a Balcony (1855)

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

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

Source: The Spectator, no. 215 (1711)

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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