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“Grace is the outcome of inward harmony.”
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
#Grace #Outcomes #Inward
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“There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.”
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
#Friendship #Demand #Honest
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“We are valued wither too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth.”
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
#Real #Taken #Enough
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“Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor.”
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
#Perfect #Generosity #Should
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“The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.”
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
#Imaginary
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“Conquer, but don't triumph.”
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
#Success #Triumph #Conquer
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“Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.”
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
#Enemy #Privilege
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“Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.”
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
#Wise #Wisdom #Understanding
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“Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men?”
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
#Men #Vanity
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“Blessed is trust, for it blesses both those who have it to give and those who receive it.”
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
#Blessed #Giving #Bless
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“Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom”
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
#Enemy #Slave
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“As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.”
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
#Self #Self Control
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“When art find no temple open, it takes refuge in the workshop.”
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
#Art #Temples #Workshops
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“Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.”
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
#Form #Calmness
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“Those whom we support hold us up in life.”
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
#Support
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“Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.”
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
#Tree #Young #Thistles
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“There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.”
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
#Love #Husband #Nun
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“To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.”
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
#Balance #Littles #Impossible
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“An opinion may be controverted; a prejudice, never.”
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
#May #Prejudice #Opinion
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“Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality.”
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
#Firsts #Immortality #Achieve
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“One has to do good in order for it to exist in the world.”
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
#Order #World
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“Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.”
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
#People #Looks #Faults
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“Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.”
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
#Heart #Thinking #Nerves
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“There is only one proof of ability - action.”
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
#Action #Proof #Ability
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“There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him.”
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
#Trust #Beautiful #Liars
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“Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.”
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
#Time #Thinking #Vanity
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“Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.”
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
#Teacher #Pain #Soul
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“He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.”
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
#Patience #Endurance
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“A defeat borne with pride is also a victory.”
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
#Pride #Victory #Defeat
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“Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed.”
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
#Dream #Fulfilled
