Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
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We only understand that which already within us.Henri Frederic Amiel
To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.
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Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.
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Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
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