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Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
Ouida
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Ouida
Age: 69 †
Born: 1839
Born: January 1
Died: 1908
Died: January 25
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Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk
Marie Louise de la Ramée
Marie Louise Ramé
Marie Louise de la Ramee
Marie Louise Rame
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Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose of the Indian.
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One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
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[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.
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There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.
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for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?
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Women hope that the dead love may revive but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.
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A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
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We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.
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Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.
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The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.
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We do not want to think. We do not want to hear. We do not care about anything. Only give us a good dinner and plenty of money, and let us outshine our neighbors. There is the Nineteenth Century Gospel.
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Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.
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Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.
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Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.
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What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth? --Wanda
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Honor is an old-world thing but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.
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The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.
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