Now love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, though very cruelly felt by the sufferer himself, is never clearly understood by those who look on at his torments and wonder why he takes the common fever so badly.


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Be astonished.
Tell about it.
MARY OLIVER
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
MARY OLIVER
Every spring
I hear the thrush singing
in the glowing woods
he is only passing throug...
MARY OLIVER
Do one thing everyday that scares you.
MARY SCHMICH
[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neith...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
It was the challenge of life too, was it not? People could never be fully understood. They were ever...
MARY BALOGH
My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering t...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
All night my heart makes its way
however it can over the rough ground
of uncertainties, bu...
MARY OLIVER
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
MARY OLIVER
There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to...
MARY STEWART
The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how well...
MARY MCDOWELL
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.
MARY BUCKLEY
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call f...
MARY PICKFORD
I have never been contained except I made the prison
MARY EVANS
The happy ending is our national belief.
MARY MCCARTHY
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
MARY LITTLE
The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its me...
MARY WEBB
It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.
MARY STEWART
Saddle your dreams before you ride em.
MARY WEBB
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY
No pressure, no diamonds.
MARY CASE
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
MARY BYRANT
It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regar...
MARY HENLE
A child is fed with milk and praise.
MARY LAMB
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call Failure is not the fal...
MARY PICKFORD
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
MARY MCCARTHY
A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traito...
MARY MCCARTHY
If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to l...
MARY DALY
Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.
MARY DALY
The divine egoism hat is genius.
MARY WEBB
Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.
MARY HAYS
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
MARY PICKFORD
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept s...
MARY OLIVER
In violence we forget who we are.
MARY MCCARTHY
We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us. One does not rape a...
MARY DALY
If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?
MARY ASTELL
It sounds extraordinary but it?s a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.
MARY ARCHER
Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascinati...
MARY MCCARTHY
Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you.
MARY BLY
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
MARY MCCARTHY
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at f...
MARY CATHERWOOD
Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beau...
MARY ARNIM
In science, all facts no matter how trivial, enjoy democratic equality.
MARY MCCARTHY
It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted...
MARY O'CONNOR
No more tears now; I will think upon revenge.
MARY STUART
A woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equali...
MARY DALY
The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life a...
MARY CABLE
Life can be seen through your eyes but it is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your hea...
MARY XAVIER
Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.
MARY RENAULT
Life can be seen your eyes but it is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart.
MARY XAVIER