Mary Stewart Quotes

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There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

Mary Stewart
It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

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The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

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The mills of God work like lightning, compared with the law.

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I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

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The difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.

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Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.

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I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.

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Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.

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You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

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The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

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Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

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It seems to me you can be awfully happy in this life if you stand aside and watch and mind your own business, and let other people do as they like about damaging themselves and one another. You go on kidding yourself that you're impartial and tolerant and all that, then all of a sudden you realize you're dead, and you've never been alive at all.

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It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

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I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back.

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Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more…

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Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

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The gods love salt. The sweat of human endeavour adds savour to every sacrifice.

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It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.

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I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.

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I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

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It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength.

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The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

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To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again

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But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.

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