Quotes About Spirit

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.

The most important thing in a man is not what he knows, but what he is.

Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.

Vaster is Man than his works.

But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary

Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Nothing that is possible in spirit is impossible in flesh and blood. Nothing that man can think is impossible. Nothing that man can imagine is impossible of realization.

Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.

The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars!

Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit.

Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit

It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.

When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.

Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.

I have knocked on the door of this man's soul and found someone home.

The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.

I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.

And if ye angler take fysshe; surely thenne is there noo man merier than he is in his spyryte.

Come in, -- come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before!