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LADY MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON
Steadfast Seas and Mountains

The lofty mountains and the seas,
Being mountains, bei...
REIKO CHIBA
Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Great things are done when men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the street
WILLIAM BLAKE
Women resemble men much more so than they did in the '50s.
JENI BOUGOURD
The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.
SOCRATES
The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods
SOCRATES
Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely ne...
JOHNSON
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French...
JULIETTE BINOCHE
The happy bells shall ring Marguerite; The summer birds shall sing Marguerite; You smile but y...
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Great things are done when men and mountains meet
WILLIAM BLAKE
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
LEONARDO DAVINCI
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Women resemble men much more so than they did in the 50s. While we are bigger overall, the waist has...
JENI BOUGOURD
Methought little space 'tween those hills intervened, But nearer,--more lofty,--more shaggy they s...
BAYARD RUSKIN
All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know t...
ALEXANDER TROCCHI
Men trip not on mountains, they trip on molehills
CHINESE PROVERBS
Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
ISAAC D'ISRAELI
Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
ISAAC D'ISRAELI
Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; but still ...
JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG ACTON
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are ...
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL
Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated ...
DAVE BARRY
Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, b...
ROBERT BRESSON
Small ills are the fountains of most of our groans. Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stone...
CHINESE PROVERB
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a li...
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON
Tears fell from my eyes--yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth...
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON
Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON
The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON
Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernic...
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON
Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON
This time around, there are not only more U.S. stores in Canada, but the Canadian stores appear to h...
HART HODGES
Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE
This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your chil...
JOHN KNOWLES
Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .
MARIO PUZO
Great men are not born great, they grow great.
MARIO PUZO
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not d...
VICTOR HUGO
Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
We did not actively search them (the DOJ) out; they approached us.
DAN NEARY
Mountains are Savage but what is the best part about them ? They bring people Closer ...
TANVEER MAZHAR
The nearer persons come to each other, the greater is the room and the more are the occasions for co...
GEORGE MACDONALD
And the greater shadows fall from the lofty mountains. [Lat., Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus ...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL)
There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any par...
MARK ZUCKERBERG
Mountains have a decent influence on men. I have never met along the trails of the high mountains a ...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poe...
JOHN MUIR
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains ...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountain...
CHIEF JOSEPH
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the stor...
JEAN PAUL
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the stor...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each oth...
GILBERT PARKER
More than anything this is a wonderful group of bright young men to work with. They are great to coa...
GAIL LUNDBERG
I think there's something very lovely and hilarious about exploring the particular neuroses of t...
LIZZY CAPLAN
Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.
EPICTETUS
When you are on your purpose, your preoccupation isn't what you don't have yet. You've already drunk...
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD
Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white...
HARPER LEE
Great men do not experience small challenges. They face great challenge but that is what makes them ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
It was Gloria who was originally approached to appear on the show and she asked me to partner her.
FREDERICK FORSYTH
Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings wh...
FRANCOIS MAURIAC
Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.
E. R. BEADLE
Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.
ELIAS ROOT BEADLE
The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very wel...
WALT WHITMAN
The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very wel...
WALT WHITMAN
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
EPICTETUS
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them
EPICTETUS
You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY
What are men to rocks and mountains?
JANE AUSTEN
Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.
MAX BEERBOHM
In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to.
ERNEST HOLMES
Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. ...
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Men like simplicity. They don't want a bunch of fuss, but I will tell you, we have more men spending...
LORIE RILEY
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. -Epictetus.
EPICTETUS
What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great for...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
A face that had a story to tell. How different faces are in this particular! Some of them speak n...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
...The men of those days...were absolutely not the same people that we are now; it was not the same ...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women
CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN
Unfortunately, Middle Eastern people are going to be approached more often than not,
MICHAEL ROACH
Sometimes I want to withhold judgement on whether something is good or bad, but I do feel like ident...
ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN
Some of them were hesitant about starting in a new school but they appear to be adjusting well. Our ...
LYNN ATKISON
If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status ...
GEORGE SAND
The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, ...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD
The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, ...
LYDIA M. CHILD
If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those w...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Mountains can't get any bigger but Men can
NEIL SUTTON
They have stuck their hands into a hornet's nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who a...
KANWALJEET ANAND
They have stuck their hands into a hornet's nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who a...
KANWALJEET ANAND
It is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the cr...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

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MARGUERITE FISCHER
I had a book, which was stolen, the art of the life of the character, in which you present a whole l...
MARGUERITE YOUNG
I think that the style is the writing, a beautiful sense of style. And if you don't have it, it does...
MARGUERITE YOUNG
God bless pawnbrokers! They are quiet men
MARGUERITE WILKINSON
Justice moves very slowly, but it is nice to know that it does move.
MARGUERITE THOMAS
It's just a chance for people to get together and mingle and have a good time. And to tell the story...
MARGUERITE THOMAS
No officer of the court or citizen of this commonwealth wants to accept that wrongs of this magnitud...
MARGUERITE THOMAS
Probably. But, I'm saying Sarah and her mother had problems to a much greater degree.
MARGUERITE SOWERSBY
She was obsessed with getting her nails done while we were selecting photos for memory boards at ser...
MARGUERITE SOWERSBY
One night (I was eleven years old at the time) he came and shook me from my sleep and announced, wit...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR
Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making f...
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
~ Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally ...
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes t...
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.
MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE
Each of us has his place in the world " he said. "If we cannot serve in one way there is always anot...
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI
It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit.
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI
A fine and beautiful life lies before thee, because thou hast a lively mind and a good wit. Thine ar...
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI
Gilds the crenelated towers of the churches here and there, Intensifies the hue of flowers makes thy...
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI
We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what w...
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI
I never cut my neighbor's throat;
My neighbor's gold I never stole;
I never spoiled his ho...
MARGUERITE OGDEN BIGELOW WILKINSON
It is difficult to overcome one's passions, and impossible to satisfy them
MARGUERITE DE LA SABLIERE