Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
HONORE DE BALZACOld 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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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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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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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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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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The more you judge, the less you love.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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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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