Madame de Stael on before
Madame de Stael30 quotes“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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To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
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 Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael The checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael
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How strange that our hearts heal from the same thing that broke it -love.
Cailin HargreavesCailin Hargreaves The peak of intensity is numbness not emotionless.
Anamika GargAnamika Garg She is everything and nothing at all.
Ava NicoleAva Nicole She built her castle at rock bottom.
Harriet SelinaHarriet Selina Keep growing into yourself.
Sophia JoanSophia Joan They tell you to be grateful for what you have. But you are also allowed to be sad for what you have lost.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura what the sky is to a bird is like a dream for a dreamer.
Safna SulaimanSafna Sulaiman The Red Rose on my grave shows once I was in love.
Moses AlexanderMoses Alexander
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More on before
He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
Bram StokerBram Stoker Before every game I used to go out and shot the same shots over and over and over. In the summer time I spent a lot of time just shooting. So really it just came natural.
Larry BirdLarry Bird Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
William GoldingWilliam Golding You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
Larry BirdLarry Bird As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.
Irvin D. YalomIrvin D. Yalom Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
Irvin D. YalomIrvin D. Yalom I’ve played for the Miami Heat my whole career under Pat Riley. Mr. GQ himself. So when I pick out my outfits before a game, I’m already feeling confident. And some of that swagger stays with me when I take the court.
Dwyane WadeDwyane Wade One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
Ida TarbellIda Tarbell