Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Quotes

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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.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory...

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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
People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.

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
When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. It requires sunshine to be seen by them to your advantage. While it lasts we are visible to them; when it is gone, and our horizon is overcast, they are invisible to us.

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
When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
This is an autobiographical-loving age...

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!

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
Some people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and it is this concealment that constitutes their value.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington