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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

Honore de Balzac

The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Complete Feeling Goodness Help Inferior
Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Angel Compassionate Infinity Woman
A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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Courage Easy Form Lesson Repeat Reward Teacher
One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Life Love Ourselves Time
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Dance Quite Right Woman
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Destiny Live Maid Old Requirement Woman
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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Event Person Result
We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Confront Moral Resource Solitude
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Food Hate Love Right Wrong
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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Man Physical Time Woman
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
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Equality Forever Love Pure True
Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Anticipation Fear Greatness Lying Ourselves
As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Generosity Poor Rule
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Dive Happiness. Grave Pearl
The more you judge, the less you love.
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Judge Love Yourself
Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Feature Himself Man Woman

Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

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