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Abel Stevens Quotes

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

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

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

Genius is always more suggestive than expressive.

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

Genius is clairvoyant.

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

Genius can never despise labour.

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

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.

Abel Stevens
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”

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

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

Labor is the law of happiness.

Abel Stevens
Law, Labor

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

Abel Stevens
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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