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Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.

Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.

Madame de Stael

Men, Imagination, Faculty

And all the bustle of departure - sometimes sad, sometimes intoxicating - just as fear or hope may be inspired by the new chances of coming destiny.

Madame de Stael

Travel, Destiny, Departure

"Corinne" by Madame de Stael, Book X, Chapter VI, 1807.

Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.

Madame de Stael

Morning, Brilliant, Glory

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

Madame de Stael

Sight, Architecture, Approach

"Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.

Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]

Madame de Stael

Stranger, Contemporary, Posterity

A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.

Madame de Stael

Fall, Glasses, Light

... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.

Madame de Stael

Profound, Mind, Admirer

You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.

Madame de Stael

Beautiful, Distance, Sublime

"Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.

What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?

Madame de Stael

What Is Love, Decay, Ifs

If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners are corrupt, we must consistently hold up to view an austere morality.

Madame de Stael

Views, Imagination, Succeed

"The Influence of Literature upon Society". Book by Madame de Stael, 1800.