"Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God." — Confucius

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)

Lost time is never found again

Source: The Way to Wealth (1758)

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)

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay

Source: Paracelsus (1835)

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:

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

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