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inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.
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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Inventiveness
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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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Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?
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Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.
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Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.
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However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.
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It is not enough to forgive one must forget.
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Be happy, but be happy through piety.
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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!
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I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.
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And all the bustle of departure - sometimes sad, sometimes intoxicating - just as fear or hope may be inspired by the new chances of coming destiny.
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Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.
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Prayer is the life of the soul.
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What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.
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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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Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.
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The egotism of woman is always for two.
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