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“Enthusiasm signifies God in us.”
-- Madame de Stael
#Enthusiasm
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“The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.”
-- Madame de Stael
#Learning #Mind #Progress
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“As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.”
-- Madame de Stael
#Wisdom #Pardon #Grows
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“The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.”
-- Madame de Stael
#Happiness #Feelings #Action
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“Who understands much, forgives much.”
-- Madame de Stael
#Forgiveness #Forgiving
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“The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.”
-- Madame de Stael
#Inspirational Life #Connections #Faults
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“The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.”
-- Madame de Stael
#Funny #Dog #Men
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“We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.”
-- Madame de Stael
#Famous Love #One Love
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“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.”
-- Madame de Stael
#Mistake #Voice #Impossible
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“The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.”
-- Madame de Stael
#Men #Desire #He Man
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“Whatever is natural admits of variety.”
-- Madame de Stael
#Natural #Variety
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“We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love”
-- Madame de Stael
#Love #Death #Hands
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“Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.”
-- Madame de Stael
#Happiness #Sweet #Nature
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“In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.”
-- Madame de Stael
#Broken Heart #Matter #Heart
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“Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.”
-- Madame de Stael
#Art #Courtesy #Politeness
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“What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.”
-- Madame de Stael
#Character #What Matters #Matter
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“Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.”
-- Madame de Stael
#Mind #Firsts #Purity
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“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.”
-- Madame de Stael
#Mind #Stories #Faces
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“Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.”
-- Madame de Stael
#Quality #Noble #Genius
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“Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.”
-- Madame de Stael
#Religious #Heart #Feelings
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“When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.”
-- Madame de Stael
#Men #Weakness #Hardness
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“A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.”
-- Madame de Stael
#Men #Public Opinion #Faces
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“The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.”
-- Madame de Stael
#Greek #Definitions #Enthusiasm
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“When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.”
-- Madame de Stael
#Age #Firsts #Noble
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“Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.”
-- Madame de Stael
#Men #Men And Women #Episodes
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“Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all.”
-- Madame de Stael
#Writing #Would Be #Genius
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“Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.”
-- Madame de Stael
#Sunshine #Genius #Perfume
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“Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.”
-- Madame de Stael
#Atheism #Selfishness #Baseness
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“Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving ...”
-- Madame de Stael
#Forgiveness #Understanding #Forgiving
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“Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.”
-- Madame de Stael
#Morning #Brilliant #Glory
