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Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.

Marie Corelli

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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
Friends
Always
Envied
Boast
Mediocrity
Host
Envy
Greatness

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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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in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.
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When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic?
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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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A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.
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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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There is no Death,/What seems so is transition.
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Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!
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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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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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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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... 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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It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!
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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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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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Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.
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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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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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And out of heart's pain comes heart's peace and out of desire, accomplishment.
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