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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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• Go out into the world where your heart calls you. The blessings will come, I promise you that. I wish for you the insight to recognize the blessings as such, and sometimes it's hard. But you'll know it's a blessing if you are enriched and transformed by the experience. So be ready. There are great souls and teachers everywhere. It's your job to recognize them.

  Sy Montgomery

  Inspirational, Teacher, Jobs

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• Great souls suffer in silence.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Silence, Soul, Suffering

  Friedrich Schiller, Charles Herbert Cottrell (1844). “Don Carlos ... Translated ... by C. H. Cottrell”, p.32

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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

  Birthday, People, Soul

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• Great souls endure in silence.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Silence, Soul, Endure

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Complete works. Ed. with careful rev. and new tr., by C.J. Hempel”, p.295

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• It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.

  Seneca the Younger

  Struggle, Fate, Destiny

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

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Love, Heart, Soul

  "Quote Unquote : A Handbook of Quotations" by M. P. Singh, (p. 96), 2007.

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• In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Memories, Educational, Book

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• When we speak of the dust of the lotus feet of the Spiritual Master, we are speaking of humble approach to serve his instructions. Unless we humbly serve the instructions of the great soul, it is Krishna's arrangement the He never reveals Himself.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Humble, Dust

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• There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Soul, Divine Inspiration

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• Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Leadership, Talking

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• Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Soul, Eternity

  James Russell Lowell (1861). “Poetical Works”, p.244

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

  Henry Fielding

  Envy, Political, Soul

  "Many thoughts of many minds". Book by H. Southgate, p. 673, 1862.

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• Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Would Be, Duration

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2356, Delphi Classics

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• The greatest human ideal is the great cause of bringing together the thoughts of Europe and Asia; the great soul of India will topple our world.

  Romain Rolland

  Our World, Europe, Soul

  "Life of Ramakrishna". Book by Romain Rolland, 1929.

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

  Antoine Rivarol

  Soul, Gold, Clay

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• We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.

  Laurence Binyon

  Peace, Soul, May

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• Only the great Souls can and know how to love.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Soul, How To Love, Know How

  Samael Aun Weor (2013). “Parsifal Unveiled: The Meaning of Richard Wagner’s Masterpiece”, p.62, Glorian Publishing

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• A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Thinking, Consistency

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• Great souls are harmonious.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Life, Soul, Harmonious

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• The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.

  Sarada Devi

  Men, Play, Differences

  Sarada Devi (1984). “The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi”

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• The great soul of power extends far beyond states, to every domain of life, from families to international affairs. And throughout, every form of authority and domination bears a severe burden of proof. It is not self-legitimizing. And when it cannot bear the burden, as is commonly the case, it should be dismantled.

  Noam Chomsky

  Self, Burden Of Proof, Soul

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• Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing for the heights. Do not forget the mountaineers who have not returned from the summits.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Forever, Soul, Mountain

  Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt (2015). “The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest”, p.300, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.

  Victor Hugo

  Mother, Strong, Self

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.68

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• Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Spring, Ocean

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.121, The Floating Press

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