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" Admiration and familiarity are strangers. "
Familiarity
Admiration
Strangers
" Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. "
Dispense
Who
Those
" Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. "
Me
Walk
Loved
" Every historian discloses a new horizon. "
Horizon
Historian
New
" Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. "
Words
Faith
Life
" Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. "
Kindness
Yourself
Regret
" He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. "
Never
Noble
Poetry
" I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy. "
Enthusiasm
Will
Nature
" I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it. "
Born
See
Earth
" Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. "
Happiness
People
Common
" Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life. "
Than
Often
Novel
" No human creature can give orders to love. "
Orders
Give
Human
" No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand. "
Humanity
Revolution
Knowing
" Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores? "
Heart
Suffering
Door
" One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe. "
Journey
Catastrophe
Goal
" One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered. "
Day To Day
Years
Changes
" Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. "
Experience
World
Effort
" The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. "
Human
Heart
Light
" The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. "
Moment
Beauty
Body
" The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world. "
Whole
Lover
More
" There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. "
Life
Happiness
Only
" The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession. "
Authorship
Violent
Obsession
" Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age. "
Young
Age
Old Age
" Vanity is the quicksand of reason. "
Reason
Quicksand
Vanity
" We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire. "
Single
Out
Life
" Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven. "
Love
Earth
Always
" Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. "
Man
Work
Strength
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