“His active Soul a thousand waies divides,
And swift through all imaginations glides.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
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John Ogilby 121
Scottish academic 1600–1676Related quotes

Variant: The area dividing the brain and the soul
Is affected in many ways by experience --
Some lose all mind and become soul:
insane.
Some lose all soul and become mind:
intellectual.
Some lose both and become:
accepted.
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“Casting the body's vest aside,
My soul into the boughs does glide.”
The Garden (1650-1652)

Touch us gently, Time, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare "Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face", George Crabbe, Tales of the Hall, Book xvii., The Widow.

The Faith that Heals (1910)

“[Functionalism is a] dividing up of activities as to kinds.”
Source: 1940s, The Elements of Business Administration, 1943, p. 56

“Solicitude for material things rends the soul; thus distracted, it divides it. The devil seizes the divided soul and thereby kills it.”
Sollicitudo mentem distrahit, distractam dividit, divisam diabolus rapit, et sic animam interficit.
Sermon for the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Part II: De sollicitudine expellenda, par. 7)
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