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Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality. (Quote by - Pierre Corneille)

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome. (Quote by - Ali ibn Abi Talib)

Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height. (Quote by - George Chapman)

All that spirits desire, spirits attain. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)

But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of their Spirits, than by the former way before described. (Quote by - George Ripley)

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. (Quote by - Hannah More)

Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections. (Quote by - Matthew Simpson)

Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

I am the spirit of the morning sea, I am the awakening and the glad surprise. (Quote by - Richard Watson Gilder)

But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action. (Quote by - Joshua Chamberlain)

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. (Quote by - John Milton)

And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five. (Quote by - James Merrill)

A Corpse or a Ghost- I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present. (Quote by - William de Morgan)

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)

Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude. (Quote by - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel)

All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet. (Quote by - Joshua Nkomo)

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai. (Quote by - Orlando Bloom)

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will. (Quote by - Eric Butterworth)

Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good or bad, below: The immortal spies with watchful care preside, And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide: They can reward with glory or with gold, A power they by Divine permission hold. (Quote by - Hesiod)

All houses are haunted. All persons are haunted. Throngs of spirits follow us everywhere. We are never alone. (Quote by - Barney Sarecky)

For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature. (Quote by - Ann Druyan)

He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits. (Quote by - Jack Kroll)

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