#great souls

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

— Antoine Rivarol

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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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