Spirit

“The Spirits of thy Lines infuse a FireLike the Worlds Soul, which makes me thus aspire”

“The heart's wave would not foam up so beautifully and become spirit, if the ancient, mute rock, fate, did not stand opposed to it.”

“During the prehistoric age of mankind, spirit was presumed to exist everywhere and was not held in honor as a privilege of man. Because, on the contrary, ... one saw in the spirit that which unites us with nature, not that which sunders us from it.”

“Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.But will they come when you do call for them?”

“Black spirits and white, You that mingle may.”

“Spirits are not finely touchedBut to fine issues.”

“The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.”

“One of the unfortunate consequences of the intellectualization of man's spiritual life was that the word "spirit" was lost and replaced by mind or intellect, and that the element of vitality which is present in “spirit” was separated and interpreted as an independent biological force. Man was divided into a bloodless intellect and a meaningless vitality. The middle ground between them, the spiritual soul, in which vitality and intentionality are united, was dropped.”

“Therefore, all the spirits and demons have one half from man below, and the other half from the angels of the supernal realm.”

“The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!”

“If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?”

“I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.”

“Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard a man, who was a great scholar, say that he'll dance ye a hornpipe upon the point of a needle.”

“Not of the letter, but of the spirit; for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.”

“Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point.”

“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.”

“I am the spirit of the morning sea, I am the awakening and the glad surprise.”

“Aërial spirits, by great Jove design'dA power they by Divine permission hold.”

“The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

“Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earthUnseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep.”

“Ornament of a meek and quiet spirit.”

“Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly,The light Militia of the lower sky.”

“He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.”

“A wounded spirit who can bear?”

“After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality…. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor.”

“Of my own spirit let me beIn sole though feeble mastery.”

“Boatman, come, thy fare receive;Spirits twain have crossed with me.”

“There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vail that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings, and feel the pulsations, of the heart of the Infinite.”

“Hands of invisible spirits touch the stringsAnd play the prelude of our fate.”

“Millions of spiritual beings walk the earth unseen,Both when we wake, and when we sleep.”

“It may be that at this moment every battlement of heaven is alive with the redeemed. There is a sainted mother watching for her daughter. Have you no response to that long hushed voice which has prayed for you so often? And for you, young man, are there no voices there that have prayed for you? And are there none whom you promised once to meet again, if not on earth, in heaven?”

“Do we not hear voices, gentle and great, and some of them like the voices of departed friends,— do we not hear them saying to us, "Come up hither?"”