Marguerite De Navarre Quotes

#1. I asked her whether, like Marguerite de Navarre, she had their hearts embalmed and hung at her girdle. She told me she didn't, because none of them had had any hearts at all.

Oscar Wilde

#2. Blessed ... is he who has it in his power to do evil, yet does it not.

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#3. Too few of us, perhaps, feel that breaking of bread, the sharing of salt, the common dipping into one bowl, mean more than satisfaction of a need. We make such primal things as casual as tunes heard over a radio, forgetting the mystery and strength in both.

M.F.K. Fisher

#4. Elizabeth sighed, "I agree, but it is partly my fault. I am so willing to help him and learn whatever he wants to teach me, I have allowed him to spend far more time with me than the rest of the family. It is no wonder Mama resents me and I am her least favorite

Don H. Miller

#5. People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.

Marguerite De Navarre

#6. Her body feels different, no longer taut and sinewy but sponge-like fluid. Saturated. It has a different energy, a deep orangy-like pink, like the inside of a hibiscus.

Margaret Atwood

#7. Though jealousy be produced by love, as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love as ashes smother the flame ...

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#8. I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled.

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#9. Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.

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#10. Newton expected no money from establishing his originality but rather desired recognition for his excellence.

Tyler Cowen

#11. Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?

Donald Miller

#12. I have this vision of maybe going the way of Bill Kurtis and, I think, Tom Brokaw, to a certain extent - the ability to not be tied to the desk anymore, but to do projects that are meaningful to you.

Lester Holt

#13. Ocean waters..oceans deep..Serious poets never sleep.

Sally-Ann Roberts

#14. I have heard much of these languishing lovers, but I never yet saw one of them die for love.

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#15. Man is wise ... when he recognizes no greater enemy than himself.

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#16. To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith

W. H. Auden

#17. haven't seen them in some time. I

John Grisham

#18. Never shall a man attain to the perfect love of God who has not loved to perfection some creature in this world.

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#19. God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.

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#20. Spite will make a woman do more than love.

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#21. When one has one good day in the year, one is not wholly unfortunate.

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