Louise Imogen Guiney Quotes

#1. Youth, ah, Youth! all men's desire and sorrow.

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#2. With fatal, fatal Love a girlhood goes.

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#3. I am not in the least given to any violent interest in womankind, however, such as has addled the country's brains of late. Give me a manandwoman world: 'tis good enough!

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#4. A guest should be permitted to graze, as it were, in the pastures of his host's kindness, left even to his own devices, like a rational being, and handsomely neglected.

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#5. Idleness, simon-pure, from which all manner of good springs like seed from a fallow soil, is sure to be misnamed and misconstrued ...

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#6. The fears of what may come to pass, I cast them all away, Among the clover scented grass, Among the new-mown hay.

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#7. Character demonstrates itself in trifles.

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#8. Youth is slipping, dripping, pearl on pearl, away.

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#9. Life is a breathing-space between two eternities, a holiday with appalling realities behind and before.

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#10. High above hate I dwell, O storms! farewell.

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#11. Family traits, like murder, will out. Nature has but so many molds ...

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#12. Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy

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#13. Very few can be trusted with an education.

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#14. Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely diverse appraisements, we make change for one another. So many ideals planted are worth the great gold of Socrates; so many impious laws broken are worth John Brown.

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#15. Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

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#16. [Death:] The one inexorable thing!

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#17. My own passion, all my life, has been non-collecting.

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#18. The hand betrays the heart ...

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