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When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic?
Marie Corelli
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Marie Corelli
Age: 68 †
Born: 1855
Born: May 1
Died: 1924
Died: April 21
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London
England
Mary McKay
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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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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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... 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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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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And out of heart's pain comes heart's peace and out of desire, accomplishment.
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What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.
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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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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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in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.
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The Press nowadays is not a literary press classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.
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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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Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.
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It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!
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the world is not always kind to a clever woman even when she is visibly known to be earning her own living. There are always spiteful tongues wagging in the secret corners and byways, ready to assert that her work is not her own and and that some man is in the background, helping to keep her!
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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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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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