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A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again. - [Face] A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. - [Quotations] Certain names always awake certain prejudices. - [Names] Everything that is exquisite hides itself - [Modesty] Evil often triumphs, but never conquers. - [Evil] Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common. - [Friends] Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal. - [Friends] Friendship? two bodies and one soul. - [Friendship] Generosity is more charitable than wealth. - [Generosity] God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears. - [God] God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home. - [God] Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm. - [Enthusiasm] Great souls are harmonious. - [Greatness] Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving. - [Friends] In youth, one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears. - [Tears] Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship. - [Friendship] It is impossible to be just if one is not generous. - [Justice] Length of saying makes languor of hearing. - [Talking] Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray! - [Prayer] Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse. - [Literature : Finance] Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears. - [Tears] Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree. - [Morality] "Necessarius," the friend, the man who is necessary. * * * A deep word, an ingenious word, a touching word. When will it be French? - [Friends] No labor is hopeless. - [Labor] Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired. - [Experience] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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