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When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to think only — What a crib from Rochefoucauld!
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There is a chord in every human heart than has a sigh in it if touched aright. When the artist kinds the keynote, which that chord will answer to, in the dullest as in the highest—then he is great.
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But an old proverb has settled long ago that pride feels no pain, and perhaps the more foolish the pride the less is the pain that is felt — for the moment.
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It is a kind of blindness—poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.
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Humiliation is a guest that only comes to those who have made ready his resting-place, and will give him a fair welcome.... No one can disgrace you save yourself.
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To him all that was indefinite was evil; all that was unfamiliar was horrible. It is the error of ignorance at all times.
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A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.
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I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.
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An easygoing husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
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Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.
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Joy is like restless day; but peace divine Like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, — till perfect Day shall shine Through Peace to Light.
Adelaide Anne Procter
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Born:
January 1, 1839
Died:
January 25, 1908
(aged 69)
Bio:
Ouida was the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé.
Known for:
A Dog of Flanders (1872)
Under Two Flags (1867)
The Nurnberg stove (1892)
The Waters of Edera (1900)
Folle Farine
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