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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Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.Henri Frederic Amiel
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I love my son. He's a great soul. He's a sweet person, but events that have happened to him in his life, some of his own making - as a parent ,you really can't take full responsibility for the destruction that can happen to a child.Lorenzo Lamas
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I grew up listening to AM radio in the '70s and hearing all of that great soul and rhythm and blues music, which definitely influenced the way I sing. But singing gospel has made me a much more humble person. There are so many people who were geniuses who only a few people knew about when they were alive.Patty Griffin
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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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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
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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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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.John Adams
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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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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
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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