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A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness. - [Gentleness] An artist should have more than two eyes. - [Art] Argument should be politic as well logical. - [Argument] Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts. - [Assassination] Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization. - [Civilization] Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth. - [Newspapers] Bounded in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who has a recollection of heaven. - [Man] Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask. - [Chance] Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator. - [Eloquence] Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness. - [Enthusiasm] Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality. - [Esteem] Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. - [Experience] Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting. - [Beauty] Fiction is the microscope of truth. - [Fiction] Good manners require space and time. - [Manners] Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. - [Grief] History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale. - [History] History teaches everything, even the future. - [History] I scarcely exceed the middle age of man; yet between infancy and maturity I have seen ten revolutions! - [Experience] Ideas are pitiless. - [Ideas] Ink is the transcript of thought. - [Ink] Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive. - [Inspiration] It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition. - [Martyrs] It is in the heart that God has placed the genius of women, because the works of this genius are all works of love. - [Genius] Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated. - [Joy] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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