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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Doing easily what others find it difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. -Henri-Frederic Amiel.

Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart. -Henri Frederic Amiel.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible with talent is genius.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth it's spark.