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compassion feelings curiosity
Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.
men needs emotion
Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.
anger heart mud
Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.
real heart adversity
The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.
energy illusion periods
All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
role-models envy emulation
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
forgiveness bears debtors
Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.
feelings sentiments
Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?
mean feelings charm
What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
people magic mind
When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.
desire loyal doe
Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.
atheist eye chance
A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.
doe delicacy sometimes
Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.
women order realizing
Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!