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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

Walter Lippmann
Men, Soul, Purpose

Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.

Walter Lippmann
Intelligent, Soul, Bent
Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.137, University of Wisconsin Pres

It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses have been the captains of their souls for any extended period of their lives.

Walter Lippmann
Hero, Ambition, Soul
Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface to Morals”, p.14, Transaction Publishers

The emancipated woman has to fight something worse than the crusted prejudices of her uncles; she has to fight the bewilderment in her own soul.

Walter Lippmann
Uncles, Fighting, Soul
Walter Lippmann, William Edward Leuchtenburg (1961). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.125, Univ of Wisconsin Press

There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.

Walter Lippmann
Travel, Discovery, Soul

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