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Psyche

noun

That which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason. Synonyms: brain, head, mind, nous. "I couldn't get his words out of my head"

The immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life. Synonym: soul.

(Greek mythology) a beautiful princess loved by Cupid who visited her at night and told her she must not try to see him; became the personification of the soul.

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"Psyche" Quotes from Famous Books

... chest, throwing himself playfully into a theatrical attitude, expressive at once of admiration and surprise, while his eye glanced intelligently over the fair but dissimilar forms of the cousins. "Venus and Psyche in the land of the Pottowatamies by all that is magnificent! Come, Middleton, quick, out with that eternal pencil of yours, and perform ...

— Wacousta: A Tale of the Pontiac Conspiracy (Complete) • John Richardson

... in a book In which pure women may not look, For its base pages claim control To crush the flower within the soul; Where through each dead roseleaf that clings, Pale as transparent psyche-wings, To the vile text, are traced such things As might make lady's cheek indeed More than a living rose to read; So nought save foolish foulness may Watch with hard eyes the sure decay; And so the lifeblood of this rose, Puddled with shameful knowledge flows ...

— Traffic in Souls - A Novel of Crime and Its Cure • Eustace Hale Ball

... grapes, and a center bowl of alabaster flashing up the familiar spectacle of Louis Fourteenth and the interior decorator's turpitude; a deep-pink brocade divan backed up by a Circassian-walnut table with curly legs; a maze of smaller tables; a marble Psyche holding out the cluster of pink grapes; a gilt grand piano, festooned in rosebuds. Around through these Mr. Ross walked quickly, ...

— Gaslight Sonatas • Fannie Hurst

... done there is no problem and no condition in the individual life that it will not clarify, mould, and therefore take care of; for "[Greek transliteration: me merimnate te psyche hymon]"—do not worry about your life—was the Master's clear-cut command. Are we ready for this high type of spiritual adventure? Not only are we assured of this great and mighty truth that the Master ...

— The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit • Ralph Waldo Trine

... Perfect French Possible (Knowles and Favard). Prisoners of the Temple (Guerber). For French composition. Roux's Lessons in Grammar and Composition, based on Colomba. Schenck's French Verb Forms. Snow and Lebon's Easy French. Story of Cupid and Psyche (Guerber). For French composition. Super's Preparatory ...

— Heath's Modern Language Series: Mariucha • Benito Perez Galdos

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