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Quotes About Spirits

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~ J.A. Konrath
A war produces corpses, but it does not bury them. At least, it doesn't bury them deep. I suspected that North's corpses were coming back to greet him, for we all have a string of spirits trailing at our back. They are like the anchoring tail of an enormous kite. If you handle them with respect, they only whisper a little bit sometimes, and the trail behind you is faded and vague. Handle them wrong--as North, perhaps, was finding out--and the spirits turn from mist to the dark smoke of napalm.
~ Jack Cady
She shrugged. "He visits me in my dreams, which are quite real and have become more frequent." How odd it was to hear her say that, as she always forbade me to talk about the supernatural, and ghosts in particular, even when I was a child and I believed I saw spirits or had premonitions.
~ Unknown
Still another and all-sufficient answer to the argument that the use of spirituous liquors tends to poverty, is that, as a general rule, it puts the effect before the cause. It assumes that it is the use of the liquors that causes the poverty, instead of its being the poverty that causes the use of the liquors.
~ Lysander Spooner
courage is not a matter of age, but true-made spirits.
~ Madeline Miller
You promise mercy to spies so they will spill their story, then you kill them after. You beat men who mutiny. You coax heroes from their sulks. You keep spirits high at any cost.
~ Madeline Miller
The comfortable estate of widowhood, is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits
~ John Gay
was Owen Meany who told me that only white men are vain enough to believe that human beings are unique because we have souls. According to Owen, Watahantowet knew better. Watahantowet believed that animals had souls, and that even the much-abused Squamscott River had a soul—Watahantowet knew that the land he sold to my ancestors was absolutely full of spirits.
~ John Irving
Health and spirits can only belong unalloyed to the selfish man—the
~ John Keats
the Erinyes, our hissing spirits of vengeance, were not always particular.
~ Madeline Miller
There was a vividness to him, even at rest, that made death and spirits seem foolish
~ Madeline Miller
I've found that courage is not a matter of age, but true made spirits.
~ Madeline Miller
If our goal is to repair all the damage done by the powers of progress, it becomes important to make sure that we focus on how to stay underground while attempting to reconnect with true ritual and true spirits.
~ Malidoma Patrice Some
Such I created all th' Ethereal Powers And Spirits, both them who stood & them who faild; Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. Not
~ John Milton
The griding sword with discontinuous wound   Pass'd through him, but th' Ethereal substance clos'd   Not long divisible, and from the gash   A stream of Nectarous humor issuing flow'd   Sanguin, such as Celestial Spirits may bleed,   And all his Armour staind ere while so bright.
~ John Milton
Out of such prison, though Spirits of purest light,   Purest at first, now gross by sinning grown.
~ John Milton
for neither do the spirits damned Lose all their virtue, lest bad men should boast Their specious deeds on earth which glory excites, Or close ambition varnished o'er with zeal.
~ John Milton
And when one is feeling gay and full of joy, the saké must be brought out to lift the spirits higher. And they drank, your papa and mine and the mayor's brother, and I only a little because I was even happier than they and needed no false joy.
~ Unknown
It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Defeat I can endure with cheerfulness, my lady. But betrayal is like taking the wind from my sails, or the earth from beneath my feet. It chills my spirits like a rainy day, and all I can do is draw the curtains and cry into my pillow.
~ Margaret George
The Mohaves were friendly with the Yavapais and the Quechans; enemies of the Pimas, the Maricopas, and the Cocopas; and merely tolerant of the Chemehuevis, who in the 1830s had moved into the valley below them on the western side of the river — an area the Mohaves yielded to them because they believed departed spirits lived there, making it dangerous.
~ Margot Mifflin
As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
~ Pliny the Elder
Forgiveness spares the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
~ Hannah More
Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.
~ Richard Harris Barham