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“Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.”

“Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations. Lydgate's discontent was much harder to bear; it was the sense that there was a grand existence in thought and effective action lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might allay such fears.”

Source: Middlemarch

“But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.”

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Book:Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

Source: Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

“All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there is given a man fit to speak of this, to sing of this, to fight and work for this, in a great, victorious, enduring manner; there is given a Hero, -- the outward shape of whom will depend on the time and the environment he finds himself in.”

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Book:The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle

“I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.”

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Author:Aloe Blacc