Thought can never be compared ...

Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.
Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.
 Madame de Stael

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Quotes from the same author

I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ourselves; but our abilities are permanent, and their demands never cease.
 Madame de Stael
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
 Madame de Stael
I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.
 Madame de Stael
Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.
 Madame de Stael
Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship; in France, it is an art for which imagination and soul are certainly very welcome, but which can also provide its own secret remedies to compensate you for the absence of either or both, if you so desire.
 Madame de Stael