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God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
Jean Paul

God, Soul, Sigh

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Work, Best, Experience

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
John F. Kennedy

Science, Together, Stars

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
Hunter S. Thompson

Nothing, Helpless, Ether

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
Martin Luther

Alone, Heart, Help

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
Groucho Marx

Life, Time, Mind

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life, Heart, Together

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
Meister Eckhart

Yourself, Heart, Human

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Good, Truth, Forget

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
George Eliot

Love, Parting, Agony

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
John Locke

Great, Cannot, Ocean

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.
Matthew Henry

Elephant, Drown, Lamb

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
Amelia Barr

Life, Great, Death

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

May, Put, Matter

I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.
Andrew Jackson

Life, May, Soul

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
Ansel Adams

Nature, Great, History

You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.
Edwin Louis Cole

God, Seek, Manhood

So much value has been lost in the housing market that people are now buying. If there's any activity in the housing market, it's because values have plummeted to such depths that the 47% can now afford to live in a government-purchased house, or something like that.
Rush Limbaugh

Live, Lost, Value

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Sleep, Needs, Shallow

Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.
Vanessa Paradis

Love, Lose, Story

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
Georges Bernanos

Loneliness, Discovers

In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.
John le Carre

Hell, Last, Won

Every time I am looking into the depths of somebody's brain, I'm thinking, 'This is what makes a person who they are. That structure contains memories. Everything that they've ever experienced is right in there.'
Benjamin Carson

Time, Person, Thinking

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.
Robert Millikan

Knowledge, Ignorance, Humility

Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.
Johannes Tauler

Self, Ignorant, Within

'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.
Gary Ross

Gratitude, Book, Small

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
Jose Marti

Powerful, Army, Principle

I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.
John Lurie

Music, Play, Paint

Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.
E. Stanley Jones

Power, Character, Friend

When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
E. Stanley Jones

Christian, Holy, Spirit

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