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48 Memoirist Quotes

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness

Guard well Treasure Kindness Hesitation
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One is happy once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.

Happy Necessary Ingredients Simple tastes
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Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Accept truth Surprises Views
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We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
Tear out Single page Life Book
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There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

One happiness Life Love
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Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

Nothing resembles Selfishness Self respect
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Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile
Butterflies Flowers Sunny day Nature
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You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.

My body Hands Actions Strongest
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The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine

Capacity Passion Cruel
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It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

Mistake Regard age Toward dissolution
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Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and joy.
Whoever Loved Life contains Joy
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Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

Life resembles Novels
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The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.

World Understand me Greatly matter
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God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.

God abandons Courage Shut up
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Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself

Know Replace Heart Happiness
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I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty

Virtues Nobles qualities I love Exclusive
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The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

Most honest Men Best Powerful
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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

Who draws Nobles delights Poetry
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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
Artist vocation Send light
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No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

Ugly Understand Virtues Sweetness
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God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

God Written Law People
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And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim.

Refused Sacrifices Valuable Peace
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Then she had doubts about the reality of her situation and wondered if her imminent departure was not the illusion of a dream.

Doubts Reality Situation Wondered
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Weak people live in perpetual fear and foreboding.

Weak people Fear
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There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

Happiness Life Love
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We have now all sorts of good reasons for accepting life, quite as good as those that had made us reject it the previous week.

Sorts Good reasons Life Good
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Nature alone can speak to our intelligence an imperishable language, never changing, because it remains within the bounds of eternal truth and of what is absolutely noble and beautiful.

Nature Speak Intelligence Language
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The constant winds of petty appetite dissipate the power of response.
Constant winds Appetite Power
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True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

True Feeling Justifies Cost
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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite

Education Society Opposite
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Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers

Darkness Birth Light Flowers
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We fear disturbance, change, fear to bring to light and to talk about what is painful. Suffering often feels like failure, but it is actually the door into growth.

Fear Change Painful Growth
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Art must be nourished by faith, the faith of an equal.

Art Nourished Faith Equal
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It is never a waste of time to be outdoors, and never a waste of time to rest, even for a few hours.

Waste Time Rest
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Routine is not a prison, but the way to freedom from time.

Routine Prison Freedom Time
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The moral dilemma is to make peace with the unacceptable

Moral Dilemma Peace
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Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self

Loneliness Poverty Self Solitude
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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become

Articulate Dangerous Words
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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Dare Frightening Strange Prove
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Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.

Words Powerful Suspects Mind
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

Think Hero Behave Human being
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Love cannot exorcise the gifts of hate. / Hate cannot exorcize what has no weight, / But laughter we can never over-rate.

Love Hate Gifts Laughter
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No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

Partner Love Relationship Feel
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So let the world go, but hold fast to joy

World Hold fast Joy
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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.

Abscence Greatest Prescence
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Fire is a good companion for the mind.

Fire Companion Mind
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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

Minute Certainty Opposite Mind
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Love is our human miracle.

Love Human Miracle
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