37 quotes found
“Ignorance is no reason with a fool for holding his tongue.”
“The main obstacle to success he soon discovered to be Letty's exceeding distrust of herself. I would not be mistaken to mean that she had too little confidence in herself; of that no one can have t...”
“punishment had not been spared--with best results in patience and purification”
“How much time is wasted in what is called thought, but is merely care--an anxious idling over the fancied probabilities of result”
“She had turned thought and feeling into life, into reality, into creation. They speak of the _creations_ of the human intellect, of the human imagination! there is nothing man can do comes half so ...”
“The person who can not bear with a sick man or a baby is not fit to be a woman.”
“Mary was proud of her husband, not merely because he was a musician, but because he was a blacksmith. For, with the true taste of a right woman, she honored the manhood that could do hard work. The...”
“There is hardly a limit to the knowledge and sympathy a man may have in respect of the finest things, and yet be a fool. Sympathy is not harmony. A man may be a poet even, and speak with the tongue...”
“She did not even trouble herself much to show Godfrey her gratitude. We may spoil gratitude as we offer it, by insisting on its recognition. To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.”
“To be unable to bear disapproval was an unworthy weakness. But in her case it came nowise of the pride which blame stirs to resentment, but altogether of the self-depreciation which disapproval rou...”
“He had the fault of thinking too well of himself--which who has not who thinks of himself at all, apart from his relation to the holy force of life, within yet beyond him? It was the almost unconsc...”
“The well-meaning woman was in fact possessed by two devils--the one the stiff-necked devil of pride, the other the condescending devil of benevolence. She was kind, but she must have credit for it”
“No good ever comes of pride, for it is the meanest of mean things, and no one but he who is full of it thinks it grand.”
“It is not where one is, but in what direction he is going.”
“From the neglect of a real duty, she became the slave of a false one.”
“She who is even once unjust can not complain if the like is expected of her again.”
“A devil - "A power that lives against its life”
