Heloise Quotes

#1. Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

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#2. The higher the step of advancement, the heavier is the fall.

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#3. Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous.

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#4. The name of mistress instead of wife would be dearer and more honourable for me, only love given freely, rather than the constriction of the marriage tie, is of significance to an ideal relationship.

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#5. It is always some consolation in sorrow to feel that it is shared, and any burden laid on several is carried more lightly or removed.

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#6. Ever tried putting a caramel candy in a cup of hot tea? It's excellent! Not only does it give a little different taste to the tea, but it takes the place of the sugar and cream which you ordinarily add.

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#7. Letters were first invented for consoling such solitary wretches as myself. Having lost the substantial pleasures of seeing and possessing you, I shall in some measure compensate this loss by the satisfaction I shall find in your writing.

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#8. The heart overwhelmed by grief knows no rest ...

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#9. Tea seems to tenderize cheap cuts of beef. After cooking chuck, boiling beef and brisket (I even mixed rib eye, which is ever so cheap, and it's great) I have decided that the tannic acid in the tea is what tenderizes beef!

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#10. We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity.

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#11. When my self is not with you, it is nowhere.

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#12. What cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart ...

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#13. I am convinced by a sad experience that it is natural to avoid those to whom we have been too much obliged, and that uncommon generosity causes neglect rather than gratitude.

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#14. It is not the deed but the intention that makes the crime.

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#15. Don't assume you're always going to be understood. I wrote in a column that one should put a cup of liquid in the cavity of a turkey when roasting it. Someone wrote me that 'the turkey tasted great, but the plastic cup melted.

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