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Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong. - [Obstinacy] One can impose silence on sentiment, but one cannot give it limits. - [Sentiment] One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak. - [Conversation] Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid. - [Order] Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others. - [Sympathy] Reason ought not, like vanity, to adorn herself with ancient parchments, and the display of a genealogical tree; more dignified in her proceedings, and proud of her immortal nature, she ought to derive everything from herself. - [Reason] Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths. - [Oaths] Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there. - [Ambition] Romance is the poetry of literature. - [Romance] That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart. - [Retirement] The heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God in this world. - [Heart] The inconvenience or the beauty of the blush, which is the greater? - [Blushes] The more heart, the more sorrow. - [Heart] The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words. - [Flattery] The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms; everything is more beautiful when they have passed. - [Quarrels] The weakness of women has been given them to call forth the virtues of men. - [Weakness] Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything--morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated that women never reach the end of anything through want of perseverance. - [Perseverance] When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved. - [Death] Woman's tongue is her weapon, her sword, which she never permits to rest or rust. - [Loquacity] Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven. - [Forgiveness] Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them. - [Heroes] You may be more prodigal of time than of money. - [Time] Displaying page 2 of 2 for this author: << Prev 1 [2]
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