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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!
Marie Corelli
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Marie Corelli
Age: 68 †
Born: 1855
Born: May 1
Died: 1924
Died: April 21
Novelist
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London
England
Mary McKay
Mary Mackay
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When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic?
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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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It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!
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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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Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!
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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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the beginning of my history is - love. It is the beginning of every man and every woman's history, if they are only frank enough to admit 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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One of the advantages or disadvantages of the way in which we live in these modern days is that we are ceasing to feel. That is to say we do not permit ourselves to be affected by either death or misfortune, provided these natural calamities leave our own persons unscathed.
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Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.
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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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... though a dealer in meat, groceries, and other food stuffs may obtain compensation if his wares are wilfully misrepresented to the buying public, the purveyor of thoughts or ideas has no remedy when such thoughts or ideas are deliberately and purposefully falsified to the world through the press.
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There is no Death,/What seems so is transition.
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There is no wealth but love.
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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 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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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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