Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Quotes
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We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Love-matches are made by people who are content for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Reason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Men are capable of making great sacrifices, who are not willing to make the lesser ones, on which so much of the happiness of life depends. The great sacrifices are seldom called for, but the minor ones are in daily requisition; and the making them with cheerfulness and grace enhances their value.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
A woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached; but great men, to retain their altitude, must only be viewed from a distance.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
It is not until we have lost those we loved that we feel all their value.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for errors, and those of the poor and lowly for crimes.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
A mother's love! O holy, boundless thing!
Fountain whose waters never cease to spring!
Fountain whose waters never cease to spring!
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
When we find that we are not liked, we assert that we are not understood; when probably the dislike we have excited proceeds from our being too fully comprehended.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington