Abel Stevens quotes
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“I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.”
-- Abel StevensSource : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”
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“Genius is always more suggestive than expressive.”
-- Abel StevensSource : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël: A Study of Her Life and Times: the First Revolution and the First Empire”
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“Genius is clairvoyant.”
-- Abel StevensSource : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”
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“Genius can never despise labour.”
-- Abel StevensSource : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”
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“A woman . . . always feels herself complimented by love, though it may be from a man incapable of winning her heart, or perhaps even her esteem.”
-- Abel StevensSource : Abel Stevens, John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) (1880). “Madame de Staël, a study of her life and times: the first revolution and the first empire”
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“No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.”
-- Abel StevensSource : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”
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“Only those who love with the heart can animate the love of others.”
-- Abel StevensSource : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël: A Study of Her Life and Times: the First Revolution and the First Empire”
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“The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.”
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“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”
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Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.
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Source : Aaron Copland, Richard Kostelanetz (2004). “Aaron Copland: A Reader : Selected Writings 1923-1972”, p.32, Psychology Press
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“You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.”
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“You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations.”
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