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I learn life from the poets.
Madame de Stael
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Madame de Stael
Age: 51 †
Born: 1766
Born: April 22
Died: 1817
Died: July 14
Correspondent
Diarist
Literary Critic
Politician
Salonnière
Writer
Paris
France
Madame de Staël
Madame Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël
Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker
Mme de Staël
Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël
Anne-Louise-Germaine
Mme de Staël-Holstein
Baroness de Staël-Holstein Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker
Anne-Louise Germaine Necker
Germaine de Staël-Holstein
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein
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When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
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I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.
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The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
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Prayer is the life of the soul.
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Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.
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Life resembles Gobelin tapestry you do not see the canvass on the right side but when you turn it, the threads are visible.
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Whatever is natural admits of variety.
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To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.
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there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.
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There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms.
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The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.
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One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.
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You do not reach the sublime by degrees the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.
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Be happy, but be happy through piety.
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Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.
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