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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Age: 86 †
Born: 1830
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts. This is not so it is only that there are more educable minds than there are educable hearts.
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If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
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Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor.
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Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.
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Old age transfigures or fossilizes.
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Enthusiasm does not always speak for those who arouse it, but always for those who experience it.
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Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
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To accept reason is impossible if you don't already possess it.
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Conquer, but don't triumph.
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Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.
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Nothing is so irretrievably missed as an opportunity we encounter every day.
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The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.
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There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.
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Who doesn't know anything, has to believe everything.
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If there is a believe that is capable to move mountains it is the believe in our own strength.
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Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!
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Believe flatterers and you're lost believe your enemies and you despair.
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We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?
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Passion is always suffering, even when gratified.
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We are not always even what we are most.
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