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Lady In Waiting Inspirational Quotes (143)

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Come quickly -- as soon as these blossoms open, they fall. This world exists as a sheen of dew on flowers.
Izumi Shikibu
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Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.
Diane de Poitiers
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
Sophie Swetchine
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
Sophie Swetchine
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The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.
Sophie Swetchine
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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
Sophie Swetchine
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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
Sophie Swetchine
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
Sophie Swetchine
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Grieve not that I die young. Is it not well to pass away ere life hath lost its brightness?
Lady Flora Hastings
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
Sophie Swetchine
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For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.
Margaret Cavendish
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If I had a lover who wanted to hear from me every day, I would break with him.
Madame de La Fayette
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When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.
Sophie Swetchine
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As long as His Majesty is sick, I will move my bed to his chambers, the better to care for him.
Catherine Parr
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There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: I shall suffer, and I shall die.
Sophie Swetchine
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
Sophie Swetchine
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One may forgive infidelity, but one does not forget it.
Madame de La Fayette
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We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
Sophie Swetchine
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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
Sophie Swetchine
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
Sophie Swetchine
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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
Sophie Swetchine
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... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high.
Diane de Poitiers
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It is easier to win love than to keep it.
Diane de Poitiers
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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
Sophie Swetchine
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