"Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within" — Jean de La Bruyère

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

Source: The Spectator, no. 215 (1711)

There's a woman like a dew-drop, she's so purer than the purest

Source: Pippa Passes (1841)

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend

Source: The New England Tragedies, John Endicott (1868)

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something

Source: Bishop Blougram's Apology (1855)

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

Source: In a Balcony (1855)

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)

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