'Twas then great Marlbro's mighty soul was proved.

-Addison,Joseph
  The Campaign,1.279.

'Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul; I think the Romans call it stoicism.

-Addison,Joseph
  Cato, act1, sc.4, l.82^3.

It must be soöPlato, thou reason'st well!ö Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!

-Addison,Joseph
  Cato, act 5, sc.1, l.1^10.

Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoesnot makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

-Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics, bk.1, ch.7,1098 (translated by Sir David Ross).

   Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems,'Lines written in Kensington Garden'.

The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden,Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Essays in Criticism Second Series,'Thomas Gray'.

His harmonical and ingenious soul did lodge in a beautiful and well proportioned body. He was a spare man†. He was so fair that they called him the lady of Christ's College.

-Aubrey,John
  Of Milton. Brief Lives (published1813),'John Milton'.

The first sense he had of God was when he was eleven years oldat Chigwell being retired intoa chamberalone: he was so suddenly surprised with a sense of inward comfort and (as he thought) an external glory in the room that he had many times said that from thence he has the Seal of Divinityand Immortality, that there was a God and thatthesoul of manwas capable ofenjoying his divine communications.

-Aubrey,John
  Of  William Penn, early Quaker. Brief Lives (published 1813).

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

-Aung San Suu Kyi
c.  AD 170^180  Meditations, bk.4, no.3 (translated by M Staniforth).

An agreeable harmony for the honour of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

-Bach,Johann Sebastian
His definition of music. Quoted in Derek Watson Music Quotations (1991).

I bequeath my soul to God† For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next age.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  From his will.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

-Bagehot,Walter
  Estimates of Some Englishmen and Some Scotchmen,'The First Edinburgh Reviewers'.

This ae nighte, this ae nighte, öEvery nighte and alle, Fire and fleet and candle-lighte, And Christe receive thy saule.

-Ballads
'A Lyke- Wake Dirge', opening lines.

I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, My morning incense, and my evening meal, The sweets of Hasty-Pudding.Come, dear bowl, Glide o'er my palate, and inspire my soul.

-Barlow,Joel
  'The Hasty-Pudding', canto1

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

-Behan, Brendan Francis
  The Rover, pt.2, act1.

Liberavi animam meam. I have freed my soul.

-St Bernard of Clairvaux
c.1147  Letter to  Abbot Suger.

La solitude re¤  tablit aussi bien les harmonies du corps que celles de l'a"  me. Solitude restores the harmonies of the body no less than those of the soul.

-Bernardin de Saint-Pierre,Jacques-Henri
  Paul et Virginie.

You know my temperature's risin', The juke box's blowin'a fuse, My heart's beatin'rhythm, My soul keeps a singin'the bluesö Roll over Beethoven, Tell Tchaikovsky the news.

-Berry, Chuck (Charles Edward Anderson)
  'Roll over Beethoven'.

Hear,O Israel: the L our God is one L: And thou shalt love the L thy God with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDORDDeuteronomy 6:4^5.

   The L ismy shepherd; Ishall not want.He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.Yea, though I walk through the valleyof theshadow of death,I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the L for ever.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDPsalms 23:1^6.