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Jules Michelet Biography

Jules Michelet (French: [ʒyl miʃ.lɛ]; 21 August 1798 – 9 February 1874) was a French historian. He was born in Paris to a family with Huguenot traditions.

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At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.

India, Point, Race, Starting, World

Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.

Contradictions, Cute Girl, Divine, Miracle, Woman, Women

Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.

Apt, Esteem, Given, Knows

The real, in all this efforts, is that we climb just for climbing.

Real, Climbing, Effort, Efforts, Climb

The way to gain a friend is to be one

Friend, Friends, Gain, Gains, Way

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.

Duties, Duty, Establishing, Firsts, Instruments, Truth

What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?

Eloquence, Manly, Produce, Silence

Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time.

Children, Length, Take, Tasks, Teaching

Each year, it is necessary to respire, to take breath again, to revive ourselves at the great living sources that forever keep their eternal freshness. Where can we find them if not at the cradle of our race, on the sacred summits from where descend the Indus and the Ganges. . . . ?

Forever, Indus, Race, Summits, Years

Woman is the Sunday of man: not his repose only, but his joy; the salt of his life.

Joy, Life, Men, Sunday, Woman

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Everything, Know How, Knows, Poor, Poverty

Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.

Clouds, Coffee, Drink, Illuminates, Reality, Things

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

Diversity, Education, Firsts, Justice, Part, Politics

Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics, mathematics and philosophy; subjects which seem the most remote from one another are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system.

Isolate, Philosophy, Reality, Single, Trying, Woe

Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.

Achieve, Achieving, Everything, Goal, Nothing

Fear accomplishes much in love. The husband of the Middle Ages was loved by his wife for his very severity. The bride of William the Conqueror, having been beaten by him, recognized him by this token for her lord and husband

Bride, Fear, Husband, Recognized, Severity, Wife

Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.

Life, Animal, Men, Protests, Brethren, Nature

Every epoch dreams its successor.

Dream, Dreams, Epoch, Successor, Successors

Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.

Aware, Obedience, Perfectly, Wells, Women

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