Abel Stevens Quotes

• Only those who love with the heart can animate the love of others.

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  Love, Heart

  Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël: A Study of Her Life and Times: the First Revolution and the First Empire”

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• Genius is always more suggestive than expressive.

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  Genius, Expressive

  Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël: A Study of Her Life and Times: the First Revolution and the First Empire”

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• Genius is clairvoyant.

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  Genius, Clairvoyant

  Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”

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• Genius can never despise labour.

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  Genius, Despise, Labour

  Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”

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• A woman . . . always feels herself complimented by love, though it may be from a man incapable of winning her heart, or perhaps even her esteem.

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  Heart, Men, Winning

  Abel Stevens, John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) (1880). “Madame de Staël, a study of her life and times: the first revolution and the first empire”

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• No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.

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  Greatness, Views, Mind

  Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”

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• Labor is the law of happiness.

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  Law, Labor

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• I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.

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  Time, Long, Regularity

  Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”

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