Lady Marguerite Blessington

Mountains appear more...

Mountains appear more...

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this...

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Wit lives in...

Wit lives in...

Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.

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Memory seldom fails...

Memory seldom fails...

Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.

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The vices of...

The vices of...

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for errors; and those of the poor and lowly, for...

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Friends are the...

Friends are the...

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

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. . . if those only wrote, who were sure of being read, we should have fewer authors; and the shelves of libraries...

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Imagination, which is...

Imagination, which is...

Imagination, which is the eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the...

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Virtue, like a...

Virtue, like a...

Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.

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Happiness consists not...

Happiness consists not...

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

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People seem to...

People seem to...

People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable...

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Talent, like beauty,...

Talent, like beauty,...

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

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Happiness is a...

Happiness is a...

Happiness is a rare plant, that seldom takes root on earth -- few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the...

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Modern historians are...

Modern historians are...

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their...

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The vices of...

The vices of...

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for...

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Praise is the...

Praise is the...

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

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Genius is the...

Genius is the...

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

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Borrowed thoughts, like...

Borrowed thoughts, like...

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

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The chief prerequisite...

The chief prerequisite...

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible...

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There is no...

There is no...

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

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We never respect...

We never respect...

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

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