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women sophie world
Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree. Carl Friedrich Gauss
women soul secret
Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it. Agnes Repplier
women secret-love doe
It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication. Charlotte Bronte
women moral walks
A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing. Charles Dudley Warner
women imagination sentimental
Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.
women resentment consequence
Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment. Charles Caleb Colton
women flower sun
Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
women want ornaments
Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.
women intellectual female
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
fate fortune prisoner
The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us in particular, but what a great fortune! Carlos Castaneda
fate past eagles
I am already given to the power that rules my fate. And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend. I have no thoughts, so I will see. I fear nothing, so I will remember myself. Detached and at ease, I will dart past the Eagle to be free.
fate hands lemonade
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade Dale Carnegie
fate thinking people
One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of. Agnes de Mille
fate forget-you strive
Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure - you as well as I: do so. You will forget me before I forget you.
fate destiny hands
We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings... Charles W. Chesnutt
fate leader always-alone
The leader is always alone before bad fates. Charles de Gaulle
fate cedars coincidence
There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason. David Guterson
fate thinking other-worlds
By exploring other worlds we safeguard this one. By itself, I think this fact more than justifies the money our species has spent in sending ships to other worlds. It is our fate to live during one of the most perilous and, at the same time, one of the most hopeful chapters in human history. Carl Sagan
perfect silence torment
The silence is perfect, and yet a torment ... Carol Shields
perfection body units
The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit
perfect excellence waste
The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect. The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection. Alan Kulwicki
perfect divine should
The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.
perfect people world
Well, you know this world isn't perfect.' 'No, you're wrong. This world IS perfect, people just come along and mess it up sometimes. Charles de Lint
perfect gentleman intimacy
He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
perfect religion nuisance
Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it. Charles Dickens
perfect may matter
No matter how far we may wander from the Lord’s perfect will for our lives, we are always welcome back. Charles Stanley
perfect waiting heaven
If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assembly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself. Charles Spurgeon