Top 15 Edgar Saltus Quotes
#1. Briefly, then, life, to the pessimist, is a motiveless desire, a constant pain and continued struggle, followed by death, and so on, in secula seculorum, until the planet's crust crumbles to dust.
Edgar Saltus
#2. Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson.
Dan Wells
#3. A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.
Samuel Richardson
#5. As a general rule, nine tenths of happiness may be said to rest on the state of health; when this is perfect, anything and everything may be a source of pleasure; in illness, on the other hand, nothing, no matter what its nature may be, is capable of affording any real enjoyment.
Edgar Saltus
#7. I think our lives are surely but the dreams
Of spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres,
Who as we die, do one by one awake.
Edgar Saltus
#8. It is the mark of a true saint that his sorrows remind him of his sins, and his sorrow for sin drives him to his God.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#9. In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation.
Sophie Swetchine
#11. Research has shown that any amount of gluten can damage the intestinal villi of a person with celiac disease (even as little as ⅛ teaspoon of gluten - approximately 1/1000, or .05 percent of a slice of bread).
Jules E. Dowler Shepard
#12. [T]he progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea.
Edgar Saltus
#13. Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious.
Edgar Saltus
#14. The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.
Samuel Johnson
#15. A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.
Edgar Saltus
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