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When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope--a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal. - [Eternity] When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power. - [Enthusiasm] When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue. - [Prejudice] When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer. - [Intrigue] Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse; and minds, strangers alike to activity and meditation, become so limited as to render all intercourse with them at once tasteless and oppressive. - [Culture] Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men. - Coppet et Weimar--Letter to General Moreau [Truth] The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music which one hears for one's good as one approaches it. [Fr., La vue d'un tel monument est comme une musique continuelle et fixee qui vous attend pour vous faire du bien quand vous vous en approchez.] - Corinne (bk. IV, ch. III) [Architecture] Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks. - Corinne (bk. IX, ch. I) [Education] Music revives the recollections it would appease. - Corinne (bk. IX, ch. II) [Music] Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it. - Corinne (bk. VII, ch. I) [Genius] Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning , all fear of an end. - Corinne (bk. VIII, ch. II) [Love] Where we really love, we often dread more than we desire the solemn moment that exchanges hope for certainty. - Corinne (bk. VIII, ch. IV) [Love] A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn. - Corinne (bk. X, ch. V) [Religion] To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that men can contract in this life. - Corinne (bk. X, ch. V) [Prayer] And all the bustle of departure--sometimes sad, sometimes intoxicating--just as fear or hope may be inspired by the new chances of coming destiny. - Corinne (bk. X, ch. VI) [Destiny] O Earth! all bathed with blood and years, yet never Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers. - Corinne (bk. XIII, ch. IV), (L.E.L.'s translation) [World] Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it. - Corinne (bk. XVI, ch. I) [Genius] Misfortune had conquered her, how true it is, that sooner or later the most rebellious must bow beneath the same yoke. - Corinne (bk. XVII, ch. II) [Misfortune] I learnt life from the poets. - Corinne (bk. XVIII, ch. V) [Poets] To understand makes one very indulgent. [Fr., Tout coprendre rend tres-indulgent.] - Corinne (bk. XVIII, ch. V) [Forgiveness] Be happy, but be so by piety. - Corinne (bk. XX, ch. III) [Happiness] Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's. [Fr., L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes; c'est un episode dans celle des hommes.] - De l'influence des passions--Works (III, p. 135 (1820 ed.)) [Love] Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth. - Germany (pt. I, ch. VIII) [Thought] Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities. - Germany (pt. II, ch. VIII) [Quality] The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all the observations and all the efforts of philosophers ought to turn towards this Me, the centre and moving power of our sentiments and our ideas. - Germany (pt. III, ch. II) [Soul] Displaying page 3 of 4 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4
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