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We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense... →
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.
Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.