Eliza Haywood Quotes

#1. Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life.

Eliza Haywood

#2. There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature.

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#3. Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to.

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#4. These are the lords
That have bought titles: men may merchandise
Wares, ay and traffic in all commodities
From sea to sea, and from shore to shore:
But in my thought, of all things that are sold,
'Tis pity honor should be bought for gold:
It cuts off all desert.

Eliza Haywood

#5. The jealous have but moments of Delight for years of Pain.

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#6. Those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others ...

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#7. The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.

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#8. Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire ...

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#9. Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them ...

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#10. To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

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#11. In fine, that it is not enough to be good, without behaving in such a manner as shall make others acknowledge us to be so.

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#12. Those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love ...

Eliza Haywood