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Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.


Jean Henri Fabre

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HENRI MURGER I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
HENRI MATISSE Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?
HENRI POINCARE Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and ...
HENRI NOUWEN Mathematicians are born, not made.
HENRI POINCARE Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
HENRI POINCARE A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.
ROBERT HENRI We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky ...
HENRI MATISSE You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests.' It certainly is not easy to hear that voice in a world f...
HENRI NOUWEN Es la imagen más pura de la mujer amada: la que aún no conocemos totalmente, la que se revelará, ...
HENRI BARBUSSE Quando alguém tem força para vencer a si mesmo, nasceu para grandes empreendimentos.
HENRI LACORDAIRE Mais, j’aurai beau supplier, j’aurai beau me révolter, il n’y aura plus rien pour moi ; je n...
HENRI BARBUSSE Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence ...
HENRI BERGSON Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
HENRI BERGSON In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole ...
HENRI BERGSON There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
HENRI BERGSON Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
HENRI BERGSON The motive power of democracy is love
HENRI BERGSON The body, by the place which at each moment it occupies in the universe, indicates the parts and the...
HENRI BERGSON In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.
HENRI NOUWEN It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
ROBERT HENRI I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.
ROBERT HENRI Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence ...
HENRI BERGSON Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a scie...
HENRI POINCARE Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to ...
HENRI POINCARE