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“Too fair to worship too divine to love.”
“Grace was in all her steps heaven in her eye In every gesture dignity and love.”
“Offend her and she knows not to forgive Oblige her and she'll hate you while you live.”
“O wild dark flower of woman Deep rose of my desire An Eastern wizard made you Of earth and stars and fire.”
“Such Polly are your sex - part truth part fiction Some thought much whim and all contradiction.”
“O Woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain coy and hard to please And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou!”
“Fraily thy name is woman!”
“In the beginning said a Persian poet - Allah took a rose a lily a dove a serpent a little honey a Dead Sea apple and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram - it was a woman.”
“Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers.”
“Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life and avoid it as much as possible.”
“There is no such thing as romance in our day women have become too brilliant nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.”
“She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight A lovely Apparition sent To be a moment's ornament.”
“There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say "Yes I've got dreams of course I've got dreams." Then they put the box away and bring it out once in a while to look in it and yep they...”
“There is no such thing as a long piece of work except one that you dare not start.”
“He who begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin.”
“All know the way few actually walk it.”
“Seize opportunity by the beard for it is bald behind.”
“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o' clock runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”
“There is clearly much left to be done and whatever else we are going to do we had better get on with it.”
“If a man would move the world he must first move himself.”