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I am sixty years old, and yet I still find myself young.
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O! if there were a continuance of days like this, the dead would arise out of their graves; the air has resurrection in it.
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Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters.
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The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart.
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Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.
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One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel.
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A mother's tenderness and caresses are the milk of the heart.
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To lose a sister, to see her no more, live with her no more, my poor friend, oh! I can well believe you are desolate.
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We are only here below as in an inn on a journey. Let us, then have the feelings of travelers. We should think a man very strange who attached himself much to his inn. The wise Christian will not do this.
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Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think.
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Yesterday, at Andillac, a little child went to heaven. If I were a little child I should like to follow it, but when one gets old, if one could help it, one would never die. Then it is that the threads that once attached us to earth become cables.
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Eugénie de Guérin
Born:
January 15, 1805
Died:
May 31, 1848
(aged 43)
Bio:
Eugénie de Guérin, French writer, was the sister of the poet Maurice de Guérin.
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