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It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,they are better critics than authors. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. Marguerite, Countess of Blessington I praise loudly; I blame softly.
— Catherine The Great
Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
You were wise not to waste years in a lawsuit ... he who commences a suit resembles him who plants a palm-tree which he will not live to see flourish.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Love and enthusiasm are always ridiculous, when not reciprocated by their objects.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
He who fears not, is to be feared.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. It requires sunshine to be seen by them to advantage!
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight ...
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
There is no cosmetic like happiness
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Haste is always ungraceful.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
To appear rich, we become poor.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Grief is, of all the passions, the one that is the most ingenious and indefatigable in finding food for its own subsistence.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
The future: A consolation for those who have no other.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Reason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Spring is the season of hope, and autumn is that of memory.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Superstition is but the fear of belief.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
A mother's love! O holy, boundless thing!Fountain whose waters never cease to spring! — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
There is no magician like love.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection ...
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
He who would remain honest ought to keep away want.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Calumny is the offspring of Envy.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
A woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Alas! there is no casting anchor in the stream of time!
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
One of the most marked characteristics of our day is a reckless neglect of principles, and a rigid adherence to their semblance.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington