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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Never Understand Always Forever Children Anything Tiresome Explaining Them Themselves Grown-Ups Things

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. Blaise Pascal

God Faith Gift Latter Proof Human Different Former

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists. Blaise Pascal

You Lose Nothing Hesitation He Without Exists Gain Then

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn. Claude Debussy

Beautiful Sunset Dawn Mistaken

Try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, 'Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,' and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you. Claude Monet

You Try Before Whatever Own Field Think Tree Exact Objects Scene Gives Color Shape Merely Until House Looks Pink Yellow Impression Square Forget Blue Just Little Your Paint Streak Here

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People Thought Long Ungrateful Find Seldom Them Serve

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. George Sand

Charity Those Who Dispense Receive

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Alone You Gardening Plant Plants Weed Spouse Your

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Happiness Good Digestion Account Bank Bank Account Cook Good Cook Good Digestion

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. Jean Giraudoux

Life Example Flower Poetry Reproduction Eternal

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast. Joan of Arc

Today Best Morning Me History You Tomorrow Will Stay Above More Had Always Leave Blood Up Than Get Did Much Body Ever Near Earlier Early

Act, and God will act. Joan of Arc

God Will Act

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation. John Calvin

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man. Marcel Marceau

Silence Thoughts Man Communicate Through Between Link

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves. Marcel Proust

Change World Weather Ourselves Recreate Sufficient

There are forms of oppression and domination which become invisible - the new normal. Michel Foucault

Oppression Become Invisible New Normal Domination Which Forms

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. Michel de Montaigne

Noise Argument Weak He Command His Reason Who Shows

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. Michel de Montaigne

Wisdom Sign Most Cheerfulness Certain

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head. Michel de Montaigne

Man Ignorance Rest Head Pillow His Which

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. Moliere

Responsible Only Also Held

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr. Napoleon Bonaparte

Death Cause Martyr Makes

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas. Paul Cezanne

Fine Blank Blank Canvas Terrible Front Canvas Stand

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