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Great souls suffer in silence. -- Friedrich Schiller
Valor is common but great souls are rare. -- Bernard-Joseph Saurin
To live alone is the fate of all great souls. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. -- Henry Fielding
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. -- Edmund Burke
Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls. -- Antoine Rivarol
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. -- Honore de Balzac
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
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
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
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
Great souls are harmonious. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
Great deeds by great souls. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Great souls endure in silence. -- Friedrich Schiller
Great souls are great inspirers. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
There lived great souls in history. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Great souls encouraged us to be great. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The great souls work with great passion. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
All great Christians have been wounded souls. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
We encounter great souls by reading great books. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Great stories strengthen us to be great souls. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Souls of prayer are souls of great silence -- Mother Teresa
Base souls have no faith in great individuals. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Valor is common but great souls are rare. -- Bernard-Joseph Saurin
For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
Truly Jesus is the great need of our souls. -- Hudson Taylor
The great authors share their souls with us- "literally. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Everybody dies, but great souls ressurects in our memories. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Everybody dies, but great souls ressurects in our memories. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
There lived great souls in the history of the world. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Christ's blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls. -- John Owen
Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity. -- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
Only the great Souls can and know how to love. -- Samael Aun Weor
Sorrow has a great refining influence on our sacred souls. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the great business of every Christian to save souls. -- Charles Grandison Finney
We travel to see beautiful places and to meet great souls. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I am a living member of the great family of all souls. -- William Ellery Channing
We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Your great employment is to bring the individual souls of men to Christ. -- Edward Norris Kirk
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn. -- Elizabeth George
Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn. -- Elizabeth George
It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good. -- Sophocles
There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous. -- Benjamin Franklin
I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls. -- Voltaire
Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity. -- James Russell Lowell
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself! -- Marcus Aurelius
Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls. -- Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
The members of humanity are really and truly souls. We're all part of one great oversoul. -- Benjamin Creme
Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world. -- Robert Silverberg
And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living. -- Fernando Pessoa
Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life. -- Heinrich Heine
Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise. -- Thomas Carlyle
Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Respect is that great spirit of good, which creates the beautiful space giving all souls the simple room to breathe. -- Bryant H. McGill
Respect is that great spirit of good, which creates the beautiful space giving all souls the simple room to breathe. -- Bryant H. McGill
The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue. -- Francois Guizot
Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it. -- Alexandra David-Neel
The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls. -- George Bernard Shaw
The world is a great poem, and the world's The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts. -- Philip James Bailey
Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland. -- Charles Kingsley
Great things are possible only to strong souls and it's from the trivial events of daily life that strength is won. -- L. W Rogers
There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own. -- John Dryden
artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger. -- Phyllis Bottome
But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people... -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We can not imitate great souls. However to study, analyse and imbibe the principles they teach and embody, is the path of progress. -- Radhanath Swami
Routine is supposed to be the great deadener of souls; how much worse is the half-completed task, the broken round, the unfulfilled routine? -- Richard Brookhiser
Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls. -- Elizabeth Prentiss
That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him. -- Brother Lawrence
The great souls who became mighty in prayer and rejoiced to spend three and four hours a day alone with God were once beginners. -- Samuel Chadwick
Through all ages, great saints have remained as living proof that this non-temporary, permanent state of God consciousness can be revived in all living souls. -- George Harrison
How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great. -- Jean Paul
There's no heaven as I had known before. It's just a great universe which is available to be enjoyed by souls who dream about it. -- Toba Beta
Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly. -- Charles Spurgeon
They smiled in their pains and laughed to scorn those who inflicted torments on them, resigned up their souls with great alacrity, expecting to receive them again. -- Josephus
Give her not greatness. For great souls must stand Alone and lonely in this little world: Cleft rocks that show the great Creator's hand, Thither by earthquakes hurled... -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women. -- Jeremy Taylor
Serving throughout the world is a great missionary force going about doing good. Missionaries teach truth. They dispel darkness. They spread joy. They bring precious souls to Christ. -- Thomas S. Monson
In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore. -- Henry David Thoreau

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