
“Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.”
Source: The Popular Girl
“Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.”
Source: The Popular Girl
“Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.”
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
“Each person's greatest room for growth is in the areas of his or her greatest strength.”
Source: Now, Discover Your Strengths (2001), p. 8
“His nobility led him to take a few steps in the direction of fortune, and then to despise her.”
Il avait, par grandeur d'âme, fait quelques pas vers la fortune, et par grandeur d'âme il la méprisa.
Maxims and Considerations, #548
Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835 (1834), 'Chapter House, Furness Abbey' translation from an epistle of St. Beuve to A. Fontenay. (Presumably Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve)
Translations, From the French
Annie Besant, An Autobiography Chapter XIV