The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
MADAME DE STAEL
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Madame de StaelMadame de Stael The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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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.
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Booker T. WashingtonBooker T. Washington In a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one’s agency, that precious gift which the scriptures make plain is essential to life itself, and say, “I will do as you direct,” is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more.
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