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Lady In Waiting Inspirational Quotes (145)

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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
Sophie Swetchine
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
Sophie Swetchine
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The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.
Sophie Swetchine
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And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.
Margaret Cavendish
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Autumn is no time to lie alone
Murasaki Shikibu
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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
Sophie Swetchine
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The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.
Margaret Cavendish
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But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.
Margaret Cavendish
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Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.
Sophie Swetchine
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Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.
Sophie Swetchine
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
Sophie Swetchine
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It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.
Sophie Swetchine
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To Jesus Christ I commend my soul Lord Jesus receive my soul.
Anne Boleyn
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
Sophie Swetchine
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Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?
Sophie Swetchine
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
Sophie Swetchine
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One is very weak when one is in love.
Madame de La Fayette
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Youth should be a savings bank.
Sophie Swetchine
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There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some kind, to want to display it to the best advantage.
Murasaki Shikibu
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One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome
Murasaki Shikibu
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The one close to me now even my own body--these too will soon become clouds, floating in different directions.
Izumi Shikibu
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The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.
Sophie Swetchine
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I have left all my business and all my husbands I have taken with me only fair weather and my children, which is as much as I want.
Madame de La Fayette
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To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.
Sophie Swetchine
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