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feelings ignorant pieces
Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.
clouds veils
Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.
struggle men long
We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.
real splendor
The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.
betrayal eye men
A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.
art philosophy history
There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.
men stupidity feelings
Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.
women wife world
Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
suicide moral dressings
Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.
stitches thread draws
From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.
soul
All we are is in the soul.
outcomes events individual
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
inspirational spurs genius
Necessity is often the spur to genius.
goes-on forget
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.