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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. - [Women] 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." - [Character] A woman should not paint sentiment till she has ceased to inspire it. - [Sentiment] A woman's head is always influenced by her heart; but a man's heart is always influenced by his head. - [Hate] Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower. - [Plagiarism] 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. - [Flowers] Friends are the thermometers by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes. - [Friends] Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out. - [Genius] Haste is always ungraceful. - [Haste] Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic. - [Misfortune] Love often reillumes his extinguished flame at the torch of jealousy. - [Jealousy] Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares. - [Trouble] Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul. - [Mediocrity] Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes. - [Memory] Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular. - [Greatness] Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits. - [Despair] Satire often proceeds less from ill nature than a desire to display wit. - [Satire] Superstition is but the fear of belief. - [Superstition] Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious. - [Talent] The chief requisites for a courtier are a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness. - [Courtiers] 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. - [Knowledge : World] 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. - [Society] Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness. - [Admiration : Attractiveness] 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. - [Thought] When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. It requires sunshine to be seen by them to advantage! - [Sun] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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