#great souls

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

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Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity. ↗

— Jacques Bossuet

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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Great souls suffer in silence. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

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Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. ↗

— Jean Paul

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Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

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Valor is common but great souls are rare. ↗