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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

Honore de Balzac

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Food Hate Small Soul Vice
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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Lying Misery Misfortune Worst
Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Feature Himself Man Woman
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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Change Conduct Himself Man Opinion Wasted Time
Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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Divine Introduction Life Mom Poverty World Youth
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Day Finding Happiness Yourself
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Dive Happiness. Grave Pearl
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Action Difficult Easy Notice
In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Children Family Intimate Life Moments Parents Willing
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Death Greatness Poet Writing
The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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Believe Force Husband Let Go Lying Media Public Yourself
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Greatness Mindset Misfortune See Virtue
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
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Death Expectation Man True
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Happiness Ignorance Moments
Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Desire Enjoyment Hope Memory

Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

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