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• It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.
  -- Ovid (43 BC) -- Metamorphoses, xiii...
• Awake, my soul! stretch every nerve, And press with vigour o
  A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown....
• And as we wind on down the road, our shadow's taller than our soul.
• That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 397...
• How sweet an Ovid, Murray was our boast!
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Dunciad, Book iv, Line 169...
• As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Platonic Questions, i...
• The world is too critical. The world is too cynical.
  We lose our innocence and we lose our very soul....
• And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep.
  -- Henry Vaughan (1621-1695) -- They are all gone...
• T is true, 't is certain; man though dead retains Part of himself
  he immortal mind remains....