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Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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Mary Wortley Montagu
Age: 73 †
Born: 1689
Born: January 1
Died: 1762
Died: August 21
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I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.
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Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.
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Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.
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You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.
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Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
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Conscience is justice's best minister it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its upbraidings. While conscience is our friend all is peace but if once offended farewell the tranquil mind.
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I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety.
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It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.
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No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
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Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
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I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.
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How many thousands ... earnestly seeking what they do not want, while they neglect the real blessings in their possession -- I mean the innocent gratification of their senses, which is all we can properly call our own.
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Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
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As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes and wrangling.
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The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.
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People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.
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I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them.
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The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares, And sees, resign'd, a crop of blighted grain. But, spite of sermons, farmers would blaspheme, If a star fell to set their thatch on flame.
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People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.
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