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Valor is common but great souls are rare. ↗

— Bernard Joseph Saurin

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To live alone is the fate of all great souls. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. ↗

— Henry Fielding

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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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