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Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington Quotes - Page 2

Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit.
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Character
Fruit
Weakness
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The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
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Chiefs
Escorting
Politeness
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The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.
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Errors
Rich
Vices
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Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.
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Admiration
Individual Happiness
Winning
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A woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.
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Men
Heart
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Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.
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Love
Germany
Tragedy
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When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. It requires sunshine to be seen by them to advantage!
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Shine On
Shining
Sunshine
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Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors.
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Critics
Judgment
Literature
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Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares.
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Broken
Mind
Trials
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Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.
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Men
Greatness
Mountain
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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.
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Love
Marriage
Honey
People
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... I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue.
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Desire
Disappointment
Failing
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Grief is, of all the passions, the one that is the most ingenious and indefatigable in finding food for its own subsistence.
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Findings
Grief
Passion
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Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.
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Emptiness
Forgiving
Independent
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One of the most marked characteristics of our day is a reckless neglect of principles, and a rigid adherence to their semblance.
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Adherence
Principles
Reckless
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The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.
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Differences
People
Weakness
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A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.
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Women
Beautiful
Flower
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You were wise not to waste years in a lawsuit ... he who commences a suit resembles him who plants a palm-tree which he will not live to see flourish.
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Wise
Law
Tree
Years
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A German writer observes: "The noblest characters only show themselves in their real light. All others act comedy with their fellow-men even unto the grave.
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Men
Character
Real
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A man should never boast of his courage, nor a woman of her virtue, lest their doing so should be the cause of calling their possession of them into question.
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Men
Calling
Causes
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Thoughts come maimed and plucked of plumage from the lips, which, from the pea, in the silence of your own leisure and study, would be born with far more beauty.
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Leisure
Silence
Would Be
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A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.
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Men
Cry
Poverty
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When we find that we are not liked, we assert that we are not understood; when probably the dislike we have excited proceeds from our being too fully comprehended.
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Excited
Understanding
Understood
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In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.
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Beauty
Males
Sex
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A profound knowledge of life is the least enviable of all species of knowledge, because it can only be acquired by trials that make us regret the loss of our ignorance.
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Ignorance
Loss
Regret
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Some people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and it is this concealment that constitutes their value.
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Effort
People
Sacrifice
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There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened or a wounded heart.
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Knowledge
Heart
World
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Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.
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Imagination
Poet
Storytelling
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Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long.
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Able
Long
Regret
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Tears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that beauty of which the faithful mirror too plainly assured me, no remnant existed.
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Departed
Eye
Mirrors
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Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows, ere we have learnt that this fair earth hides graves.
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Earth
Flower
Remembrance
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People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.
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Past
People
Years
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When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.
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Broken
Doubt
Lapses
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I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is visible in the external aspect of the place.
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Flourishing
Improvement
Littles
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Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.
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Happiness
Discovery
Roots
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Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.
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Appearance
Interesting
Towns
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Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory . . .
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Giving
Political
Prejudice
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Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it; they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home.
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Home
Society
Poor
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There are some chagrins of the heart which a friend ought to try to console without betraying a knowledge of their existence, as there are physical maladies which a physician ought to seek to heal without letting the sufferer know that he has discovered their extent.
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Heart
Physicians
Trying
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[His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness.
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Fire
Mind
Volcanoes
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Sure there's different roads from this to Dungarvan* - some thinks one road pleasanter, and some think another; wouldn't it be mighty foolish to quarrel for this? - and sure isn't it twice worse to thry to interfere with people for choosing the road they like best to heaven?
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Women
People
Thinking
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Men are capable of making great sacrifices, who are not willing to make the lesser ones, on which so much of the happiness of life depends. The great sacrifices are seldom called for, but the minor ones are in daily requisition; and the making them with cheerfulness and grace enhances their value.
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Men
Grace
Sacrifice
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