The virtues we acquire, which ...

The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.
The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.

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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.