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To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Age: 59 †
Born: 1789
Born: September 1
Died: 1849
Died: June 4
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The future: A consolation for those who have no other.
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Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows, ere we have learnt that this fair earth hides graves.
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Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.
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[His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness.
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A mother's love! O holy, boundless thing! Fountain whose waters never cease to spring!
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Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters but our strength is the forced fruit.
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One of the most marked characteristics of our day is a reckless neglect of principles, and a rigid adherence to their semblance.
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A woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.
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