Eugenie de Guerin Quotes

Oh! if people were but acquainted with piety, they would not fear it so much, or give it so unattractive a character; 'tis the balm of life, and perhaps in the world it is believed to consist of bitterness, harshness, uncouthness; but, take my word for it, nothing is more gentle, more yielding, more loving than a pious soul.

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• If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

  

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• Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

  

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• Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

  

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• I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?

  

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• How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.

  

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• This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.

  

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• Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.

  

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• Oh! if people were but acquainted with piety, they would not fear it so much, or give it so unattractive a character; 'tis the balm of life, and perhaps in the world it is believed to consist of bitterness, harshness, uncouthness; but, take my word for it, nothing is more gentle, more yielding, more loving than a pious soul.

  

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