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And out of heart's pain comes heart's peace and out of desire, accomplishment.
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
Pain
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What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?
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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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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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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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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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How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion!
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It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!
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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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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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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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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.
Marie Corelli
in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.
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For though there never was so much reading matter put before the public, there was never less actual 'reading' in the truest and highest sense of the term than there is at present.
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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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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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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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When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic?
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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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