“Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?”
Wisdom Quotes · Page 61
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“Religion is nothing, if it is not everything; if existence is not filled with it.”
“The search for the truth is the noblest of occupations, and its publication a duty.”
“Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.”
“I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.”
“All my joys to this are folly / Naught so sweet as melancholy.”
“The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.”
“See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.”
“Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity.”
“I find great numbers of moderately good people who think it fine to take scandal.”
“Time is the great leveller, but he is also the sanctifier and the beautifier.”
“Can loveliness lose its power ? Ah, yes ! when love can lose its truth.”
“So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.”
“Forsooth, brothers, fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell.”
“Mastership hath many shifts whereby it striveth to keep itself alive in the world.”
“Now such an one for daughter Creon had / As maketh wise men fools and young men mad.”
“Forget six counties overhung with smoke, / Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke,”
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