Quote#World
Each soul is as great as the world, and in each soul there is room…
Quote byRobert Hugh Benson · 1871–1914
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Christ in the Church (1911), Pt. 3, ch. 3 (p. 133).
English (original)
Each soul is as great as the world, and in each soul there is room for all the tragedies of the world to be re-enacted, as every puddle is great enough to hold the sun.
— Robert Hugh Benson
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