Top 15 Hester Lynch Piozzi Quotes
#1. Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence and virtue and honest fondness one loves people.
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#2. I think character never changes; the Acorn becomes an Oak, which is very little like an Acorn to be sure, but it never becomes an Ash ...
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#3. Every one in this world has as much as they can do in caring for themselves, and few have leisure really to think of their neighbours distresses, however they may delight their tongues with talking of them.
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#4. No companion however wise, no friend however useful, can be to me what my mother has been: her image will long pursue my fancy; her voice for ever hang in my ears: may her precepts but sink into my heart!
Hester Lynch Piozzi
#6. If truth can be found in any sublunary science, numbers will produce it, for to that at last almost all other sciences refer for confirmation.
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#8. Living at Venice is like a Journey to the Moon somehow....And a sweet Planet it is!
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#9. I am perpetually bringing or losing babies, both very dreadful operations to me, and which tear mind and body both in pieces very cruelly.
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#10. A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.
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#12. One should know the value of Life better than to pout any part of it away.
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#13. We look on those approaching the banks of a river all must cross, with ten times the interest they excited when dancing in the meadow.
Hester Lynch Piozzi
#15. [Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth!
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