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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 StaelMadame de Stael The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael Speech happens to not be his language.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael
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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother.
Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.
Adam MichnikAdam Michnik Woe to that man who runs when God has not sent him; and woe to him who refuses to run, or who ceases to run, when God has sent him.
Adam ClarkeAdam Clarke I expect and hope that orthomolecular medicine, within the next five to ten years, will cease to be a specialty in medicine and that all physicians will be using nurition as an essential tool in treating disease.
Abram HofferAbram Hoffer I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel War shall cease between nations, and by the will of God the Most Great Peace shall come; the world will be seen as a new world, and all men will live as brothers.
Abdu'l-BahaAbdu'l-Baha I beseech you, one and all, to add your prayers to mine to the end that war and bloodshed cease, and that love, friendship, peace and unity reign in the world.
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