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O memory, thou bitter sweet,--both a joy and a scourge! - [Memory] Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment. - [Poetry] Providence protects us in all the details of our lot. - [Providence] Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman. - [Purity] Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication, a duty. - [Truth] Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius. - [Society] Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.] - see the "Journal" of Camille Desmoulins [Posterity] Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious; it is. on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious. - see Abel Stevens' "Life of Madame de Stael", ch. XXXIV [Superstition] Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society. - [Taste] The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous. - [Education] The egotism of woman is always for two. - [Egotism] The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a reason in the story of her life. - [Face] The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals. [Fr., L'esprit humain fait progres toujours, mais c'est progres en spirale.] - [Progress] The language of religion can alone suit every situation and every mode of feeling. - [Religion] The more we know, the better we forgive; Whoe'er feels deeply, feels for all who live. - [Forgiveness : Sympathy] The most careful reasoning characters are very often the most easily abashed. - [Character] The only equitable manner in my opinion, of judging the character of a man is to examine if there are personal calculations in his conduct; if there are not, we may blame his manner of judging, but we are not the less bound to esteem him. - [Character] The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it: enthusiasm signifies God in us. - [Enthusiasm] The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. - [Conscience] There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune; it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature; by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms. - [Vanity] To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it. - [Sorrow] Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death. - [Monuments] We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love. - [Death] Whatever is natural admits of variety. - [Variety] When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not the decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. - [Age] Displaying page 2 of 4 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4
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