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Louise Imogen Guiney
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“Character demonstrates itself in trifles.”
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“The hand betrays the heart ...”
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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.”
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“Life is a breathing-space between two eternities, a holiday with appalling realities behind and before.”
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“Family traits, like murder, will out. Nature has but so many molds ...”
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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.”
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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 ...”
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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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“Beyond the cheat of Time, here where you died, you live; / You pace the garden walk, secure and sensitive; / You linger on the stair: Love's lonely pulses leap! / The harpsichord is shaken, the dogs look up from sleep.”
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“O glorious tide, O hospitable tide / On whose moon-heaving breast my head hath lain ...”
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“[Death:] The one inexorable thing!”
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“For when by night the May wind blows / The lilac-blooms apart, / The memory of his first love / Is shaken on his heart.”
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“For better than fortune's best / Is mastery in the using, / And sweeter than anything sweet / The art to lay it aside!”
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“Open, Time, and let him pass / Shortly where his feet would be!”
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“A short life in the saddle, Lord! / Not long life by the fire.”
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“High above hate I dwell: / O storms! farewell.”
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“With fatal, fatal Love a girlhood goes.”
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“For the hewn oak a century fair, / A wound in earth, an ache in air.”
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“Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of filial reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.”
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“Very few can be trusted with an education.”
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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!”
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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.”
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“My own passion, all my life, has been non-collecting.”
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“The one thing the matter with him is just 'nerves': and that is never understood properly, never prescribed for properly, never even sympathised with properly, in England. And yet it is more terrible, if not checked, than almost any form of disease, and completely cancels one's energy and usefulness. Only it can always be checked, thank the Lord. It always makes for the best people, the crystals of the human race.”
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“The fears of what may come to pass, / I cast them all away, / Among the clover scented grass, / Among the new-mown hay.”
Louise Imogen Guiney, U.S. poet, writer, editor, literary scholar
(1861 - 1920)