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MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH
Austrian novelist
(1830 - 1916)

Accident is veiled necessity.
      - [Necessity]

Age either transfigures or petrifies.
      - [Age]

An opinion may be controverted; a prejudice, never.
      - [Opinion]

As soon as fashion is universal, it is out of date.
      - [Fashion]

Be the first to say what is self-evident, and you are immortal.
      - [Originality]

Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by dash of humor.
      - [Generosity]

Genius points the way; talent pursues it.
      - [Genius]

Grace is the outcome of inward harmony.
      - [Grace]

How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.
      - [Joy]

How wise must one be to be always kind.
      - [Kindness]

In every exalted joy, there mingles a sense of gratitude.
      - [Joy]

Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name.
      - [Kindness]

Nothing is so often irrevocably neglected as an opportunity of daily occurrence.
      - [Opportunity]

One thought cannot awake without awakening others.
      - [Thought]

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.
      - [Imagination]

There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.
      - [Friendship]

There is only one proof of ability,--action.
      - [Action]

To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much impossible.
      - [Contentment]

We should always forgive,--the penitent for their sake, the impenitent for our own.
      - [Forgiveness]

We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.
      - [Patience]

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.
      - [Beauty]

When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can.
      - [Opportunity]

Last Revised: 2007 January 1
Copyright © 1999-2007 John C. Shepard. All Rights Reserved.
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