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• 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

  Prayer, Soul, Three

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• Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

  Mark Twain

  Kings, Men, Soul

  Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.383, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak.

  John Adams

  Believe, Power, Thinking

  John Adams, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson (1959). “The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams. 1812-1826”

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• I've been influenced heavily by great soul artists. I see myself as a soul singer. I sing from my soul - I write from my soul.

  Robin Thicke

  Writing, Artist, Soul

  "Hot Tracks: Robin Thicke". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November 2013.

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• It is in our own mind and not in exterior objects that we perceive most things; fools know scarcely anything because they are empty, and their heart is narrow; but great souls find in themselves a number of exterior things; they have no need to read or travel or to listen or to work to discover the highest truths; they have only to delve into themselves and search, if we may say so, their own thoughts.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Heart, Numbers, Soul

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, 1746.

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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

  Heart, Exercise, Equality

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

  Edmund Burke

  Passion, Soul, Intuition

  Edmund Burke, John Shebbeare (1776). “An Answer to the Printed Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq; spoken in the House of Commons, April 19, 1774, etc. By John Shebbeare”, p.191

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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

  Passion, Soul, Causes

  William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), Edmund Burke, Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine, Jean Gabriel Peltier (1834). “Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added the Arguement of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of Peltier”, p.87

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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

  Life, Passion, Soul

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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

  Break Up, Nature, Air

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• Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People, Soul, Spurs

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• If there be one attribute of the Deity which astonishes me more than another, it is the attribute of patience. The Great Soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry. In the realm of nature, every thing has been wrought out in the august consciousness of infinite leisure; and I bless God for that geology which gives me a key to the patience in which the creative process was effected.

  J. G. Holland

  Keys, August, Giving

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• The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.

  Honore de Balzac

  Joy, Soul, Taste

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• The great soul surrenders itself to fate.

  Seneca the Elder

  Fate, Acceptance, Soul

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• Each soul has it's own path. Children are young personalities but they are not always young souls. Incarnation into the domain of the five senses is a dramatic act of spiritual responsibility. Neonates are great souls and so I honor their paths. I do the best that I can, but the best that I can do is to change myself. To make myself a citizen like I want others to be.

  Gary Zukav

  Spiritual, Children, Responsibility

  Source: www.douglasgillies.com

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• 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

  Lonely, Appreciation, Greatness

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1494, Delphi Classics

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• Many even see in Obama a messiah-like figure, a great soul, and some affectionately call him Mahatma Obama.

  Dinesh Sharma

  Soul, Figures, Messiah

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• Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha.

  Heinrich Heine

  Giving, Soul, Utterance

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• Many can give money to those in need, but to personally serve the needy readily, out of love, and in a fraternal spirit, requires a truly great soul.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Giving, Soul, Needs

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• The great soul of this world is just.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Justice, Soul, World

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• Great soul of Gandhi, cover your ears. You will not want to hear this! Listen, you inbred piece of Ku Klux Krap! You white people love to be racist, but the only races you can tell apart are Indianapolis and Daytona. I hope I am reincarnated as toothpaste, so I never have to see you again. Now take your twelve-pack of wife-beating juice and get the park out of my store!

  Carlos Mencia

  Race, White, People

  "Mind of Mencia". Sketch-comedy Series, 2005-2008.

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• It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Bravery, Soul

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1872). “The Academic Questions: Treatise De Finibus and Tusculan Disputations of M. R. Cicero, with a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero”, p.369

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• Since ancient Time began,
  Ever on some great soul God laid an infinite burden--
  The weight of all this world, the hopes of man,
  Conflict and pain, and fame immortal are his guerdon.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Pain, Men, Soul

  Richard Watson Gilder (1900). “Five Books of Song”

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• A great soul is called Saragrahi that means one who is always looking for the essence of every situation that comes before us.

  Radhanath Swami

  Mean, Essence, Soul

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• 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

  Soul, Progress, Principles

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