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kindness hands rocks
Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.
reality imagination details
Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.
jesus police enemy
The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.
communication inspiration past
[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject.
selfishness courtesy veneer
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
beauty promise fifteen
At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
pain men suffering
Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
passion giving village-idiots
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
passion men ideas
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
fate blood political
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
heart exercise equality
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
literature spirit apprehension
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
funny marriage witty
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
weed marijuana literature
Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.