“He had almost yielded, but not quite. He had not consented. It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Source: Earthsea Books, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), Chapter 7

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American writer 1929–2018

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Seduce Me at Sunrise

“If death had only been the end of all, the wicked would have had a good bargain in dying, for they would have been happily quit not only of their body, but of their own evil together with their souls. But now, as the soul plainly appears to be immortal, there is no release or salvation from evil except the attainment of the highest virtue and wisdom. For the soul when on her progress to the world below takes nothing with her but nurture and education…”

Socrates (-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher

Plato, Phaedo

“Why, this man seemed barely older than himself, Emmanuel thought. He gave off a sense of almost irresistible vigor. Quite simply, he had at last become a man…”

Gabrielle Roy book The Tin Flute

Source: The Tin Flute (1945), P.375

“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

“I remember a picture I saw in a paper not long before the wall came down. There was a man standing holding a very young daughter, my guess was that she was only about one or two years old. She had on a rather plain dress, he had on a coat and a tie and he was carrying probably a cardboard suitcase. And my guess is that everything he owned in the world was in that suitcase. And he was weeping. He wasn't weeping because he left his car and the rest of his family back on the other side of that Iron Curtain; he was weeping because he was free. He was weeping because now he had opportunity, he had the chance to choose for the first time in his life, and his daughter whom he was holding in his hands had a future, whereas before she would not have had one. That struck me as a very, very vivid picture of what this all meant.”

Leighton W. Smith, Jr. (1939) United States Navy admiral

On the end of the Cold War, in part 7: The End of the Cold War http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/LWSmith/lwsmith-con02.html
Interview at USC Berkeley (1997)

“Speaking generally, he holds dominion, to whom are entrusted by common consent affairs of state”

Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) Dutch philosopher

such as the laying down, interpretation, and abrogation of laws, the fortification of cities, deciding on war and peace, &c. But if this charge belong to a council, composed of the general multitude, then the dominion is called a democracy; if the council be composed of certain chosen persons, then it is an aristocracy ; and, if, lastly, the care of affairs of state, and, consequently, the dominion rest with one man, then it has the name of monarchy.
Source: Political Treatise (1677), Ch. 2, Of Natural Right

“He was worried lest during his late discontent he had imperiled his salvation. He was not quite sure there was a Heaven to be attained, but Dr. John Jennison said there was, and Babbitt was not going to take a chance.”

Sinclair Lewis book Babbitt

Babbitt (1922), Ch. 34

“I had, at that moment, another soul – an almost divine soul, a creative and sacrificial soul.”

Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917) French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright

“[.. but he had] a record with the music of the dwarfes on it, and quite often play it.”

Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) Peintre Néerlandais

short quotes, from post-cards to his brother Carel, from London autumn, 1938; as quoted in 'Artist Piet Mondrian in London: the forgotten years', Thomasine, Sweden; The Guardian International https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/jun/25/artist-piet-mondrian-london-years
Mondrian's short quotes are referring to the Disney animation-movie 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film), which he visited early 1938 with his brother Carel. His brother he named in the postcards "Sneezy".
1930's

“There was a little man, and he had a little soul;
And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!”

Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter

Little Man and Little Soul.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“He had almost yielded, but not quite. He had not consented. It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.”

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