Louise Imogen Guiney quotes
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“Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy”
-- Louise Imogen GuineySource : Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”
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“I am not in the least given to any violent interest in womankind, however, such as has addled the country's brains of late. Give me a manandwoman world: 'tis good enough!”
-- Louise Imogen GuineySource : Louise Imogen Guiney (1926). “Letters of Louise Imogen Guiney”
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“With fatal, fatal Love a girlhood goes.”
-- Louise Imogen GuineySource : Louise Imogen Guiney (1900). “The Martyrs' Idyl and Shorter Poems”
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“Youth, ah, Youth! all men's desire and sorrow.”
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“Youth is slipping, dripping, pearl on pearl, away.”
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“Life is a breathing-space between two eternities, a holiday with appalling realities behind and before.”
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“Idleness, simon-pure, from which all manner of good springs like seed from a fallow soil, is sure to be misnamed and misconstrued ...”
-- Louise Imogen GuineySource : Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”
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“A guest should be permitted to graze, as it were, in the pastures of his host's kindness, left even to his own devices, like a rational being, and handsomely neglected.”
-- Louise Imogen GuineySource : Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”
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“Family traits, like murder, will out. Nature has but so many molds ...”
-- Louise Imogen GuineySource : Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”
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“Very few can be trusted with an education.”
-- Louise Imogen GuineySource : Louise Imogen Guiney (1897). “Patrins, to which is added An inquirendo into the wit & other good parts of His late Majesty King Charles the Second”
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“[Death:] The one inexorable thing!”
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“My own passion, all my life, has been non-collecting.”
-- Louise Imogen GuineySource : Louise Imogen Guiney (1926). “Letters of Louise Imogen Guiney”
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“Character demonstrates itself in trifles.”
-- Louise Imogen GuineySource : Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”
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“No pleasure or success in life quite meets the capacity of our hearts. We take in our good things with enthusiasm, and think ourselves happy and satisfied; but afterward, when the froth and foam have subsided, we discover that the goblet is not more than half-filled with the golden liquid that was poured into it.”
-- Louise Imogen GuineySource : Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”
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“High above hate I dwell, O storms! farewell.”
-- Louise Imogen GuineySource : Louise Imogen Guiney (1909). “Happy Endings: The Collected Lyrics of Louise Imogen Guiney”
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“Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.”
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“Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely diverse appraisements, we make change for one another. So many ideals planted are worth the great gold of Socrates; so many impious laws broken are worth John Brown.”
-- Louise Imogen GuineySource : Louise Imogen Guiney (1897). “Patrins, to which is added An inquirendo into the wit & other good parts of His late Majesty King Charles the Second”
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