Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.”
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“There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.”
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“I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.”
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“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”
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“Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.”
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“See how that pair of billing doves With open murmurs own their loves And, heedless of censorious eyes, Pursue their unpolluted joys: No fears of future want molest The downy quiet of their nest.”
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“The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play.”
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“The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain; He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares, And sees, resign'd, a crop of blighted grain. But, spite of sermons, farmers would blaspheme, If a star fell to set their thatch on flame.”
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“Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.”
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“As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.”
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“We have all our playthings. Happy are they who are contented with those they can obtain; those hours are spent in the wisest manner that can easiest shade the ills of life, and are the least productive of ill consequences.”
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“It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.”
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“People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!”
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“Remember my unalterable maxim, "When we love, we always have something to say.”
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“It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.”
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“Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.”
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“Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others retiring.”
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“Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.”
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“People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.”
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“... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.”
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“Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.”
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“I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.”
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“It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.”
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“We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.”
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“I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.”
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“A propos of Distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that I am sure will make you wish your selfe here. The Small Pox so fatal and so general amongst us is here entirely harmless by the invention of engrafting (which is the term they give it). There is a set of old Women who make it their business to perform the Operation.”
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“The familiarities of the gaming-table contribute very much to the decay of politeness ... The pouts and quarrels that naturally arise from disputes must put an end to all complaisance, or even good will towards one another.”
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“Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.”
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“My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.”
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