Quotes by Heloise - Page 1

When my self is not with you, it is nowhere.
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Absence
Self
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The heart overwhelmed by grief knows no rest.
Heloise / Writer
Grief
Heart
Overwhelmed
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Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous.
Heloise / Writer
Prosperity
Sides
Virtuous
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it is not the deed but the intention that makes the crime.
Heloise / Writer
Crime
Deeds
Intention
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the higher the step of advancement, the heavier is the fall.
Heloise / Writer
Failure
Advancement
Fall
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We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity.
Heloise / Writer
Hatred
Hatred And Love
Long
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Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more anxious!
Heloise / Writer
Fear
Love Is
Might
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Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.
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Fate
Merit
Riches
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What cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart.
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Heart
Inspire
Soul
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I am convinced by a sad experience that it is natural to avoid those to whom we have been too much obliged, and that uncommon generosity causes neglect rather than gratitude.
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Generosity
Gratitude
Guilt
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The name of mistress instead of wife would be dearer and more honourable for me, only love given freely, rather than the constriction of the marriage tie, is of significance to an ideal relationship.
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Names
Ties
Wife
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Ever tried putting a caramel candy in a cup of hot tea? It's excellent! Not only does it give a little different taste to the tea, but it takes the place of the sugar and cream which you ordinarily add.
Heloise / Writer
Giving
Taste
Tea
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Tea seems to tenderize cheap cuts of beef. After cooking chuck, boiling beef and brisket (I even mixed rib eye, which is ever so cheap, and it's great) I have decided that the tannic acid in the tea is what tenderizes beef!
Heloise / Writer
Cooking
Cutting
Eye
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Don't assume you're always going to be understood. I wrote in a column that one should put a cup of liquid in the cavity of a turkey when roasting it. Someone wrote me that 'the turkey tasted great, but the plastic cup melted.
Heloise / Writer
Cups
Liquid
Turkeys
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Letters were first invented for consoling such solitary wretches as myself. Having lost the substantial pleasures of seeing and possessing you, I shall in some measure compensate this loss by the satisfaction I shall find in your writing.
Heloise / Writer
Loss
Satisfaction
Writing
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If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.
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Character
Memories
Regret
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Frozen peas can be shelled very fast with a wringer-type washer. Put a pan on one side of the wringer to catch the peas and the pods go on through. You will think peas will go through the wringer and be mashed the moment the pod hits the wringer, but they will pop out before they go through. A very fast job can be done this way.
Heloise / Writer
Jobs
Sides
Thinking
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If a picture, which is but a mute representation of an object, can give such pleasure, what cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart; they have all the fire of our passions, they can raise them as much as if the persons themselves were present; they have all the tenderness and the delicacy of speech, and sometimes a boldness of expression even beyond it.
Heloise / Writer
Fire
Heart
Passion
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