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Lady In Waiting Inspirational Quotes (145)

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Remember me when you do pray that hope doth lead from day to day.
Anne Boleyn
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I have a theory of my own about what the art of the novel is, and how it came into being....It happens because the storyteller's own experience...has moved him to an emotion so passionate that he can no longer keep it shut up in his heart.
Murasaki Shikibu
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Sophie Swetchine
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The king has been very good to me. He promoted me from a simple maid to be a marchioness. Then he raised me to be a queen. Now he will raise me to be a martyr.
Anne Boleyn
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
Sophie Swetchine
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O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.
Anne Boleyn
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Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.
Sophie Swetchine
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Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.
Sophie Swetchine
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Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.
Murasaki Shikibu
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Most mothers think that to keep young people away from love-making it is enough never to speak of it in their presence.
Madame de La Fayette
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Stepmothers in books usually behave very spitefully towards the children entrusted to them. But he was now learning by his own experience that in real life this does not always happen.
Murasaki Shikibu
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
Sophie Swetchine
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
Sophie Swetchine
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
Sophie Swetchine
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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
Sophie Swetchine
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First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.
Margaret Cavendish
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Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.
Sophie Swetchine
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
Sophie Swetchine
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No penance can your hard heart find save such as you long since have taught me to endure
Murasaki Shikibu
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Every day, I wish to make the world more beautiful than I found it.
Madame de Pompadour
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As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.
Margaret Cavendish
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We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
Sophie Swetchine
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You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here for I am weary of this frail world's decay.
Murasaki Shikibu
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It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.
Diane de Poitiers
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