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Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

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Marie Corelli
Age: 68 †
Born: 1855
Born: May 1
Died: 1924
Died: April 21
Novelist
Poet
Writer
London
England
Mary McKay
Mary Mackay
Thought
Delicacy
Warmth
Colour
Equally
Thanks
Lovely
Praise
Beyond

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Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.
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When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic?
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No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.
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You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!
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work is happiness. No one can take my work from me and therefore no one can take my happiness from me.
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Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country but in what way is this 'Patria' or country served by slaying its able bodied men in thousands?
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What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?
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There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes from consulting one's own personal convenience.
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I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to the hearts of others.
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There is no wealth but love.
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How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion!
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in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.
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And out of heart's pain comes heart's peace and out of desire, accomplishment.
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Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.
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Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!
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Years should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or consider them? In the world of wild Nature, time is measured by seasons only-the bird does not know how old it is-the rose-tree does not count its birthdays!
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There is no Death,/What seems so is transition.
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Fame, or notoriety, whichever that special noise may be called when the world like a hound 'gives tongue' and announces that the quarry in some form of genius is at bay, is apt to increase its clamor in proportion to the aloofness of the pursued animal.
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It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!
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I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep.
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