Francis Alexander Durivage quotes
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“The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened.”
-- Francis Alexander DurivageSource : Francis Alexander Durivage (1856). “The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage: And Other Tales”, p.52
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“The highest art is artlessness.”
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“If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times.”
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“Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence; only the success of the false is temporary, that of the true, immortal.”
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“There are some professed Christians who would gladly burn their enemies, but yet who forgive them merely because it is heaping coals of fire on their heads.”
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“How much of love lies buried in dusty graves!”
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“The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion of misfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine is developed by the blows of the lapidary.”
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“To write for a living, according to Mr. Whipple, is coquetting with starvation.”
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Source : A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.8, Oberon Books
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“It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family.”
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“I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.”