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Quotes from Forty Thousand Quotations — Anna Cora Mowatt

1819–1870 France

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Lord Chesterfield designated ugly women as the third sex; how shall we place ugly men.

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Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.

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Beautiful thoughts flit across the brain, like butterflies in the sun’s rays, and are as difficult to capture.

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The mere aspiration is partial realization.

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Every natural movement is graceful. Did you ever watch a kitten at play?

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Mme. Deluzy has said that indifference is a woman’s guardian angel,—a remark not only applicable in France, but all over the world.

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Women endowed with remarkable sensibilities enjoy much, but they also suffer much. The greater the light, the stronger will be the shadow.

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Is it not in accordance with divine order that every mortal is thrown into that situation where his hidden evils can be brought forth to his own view, that he may know them, acknowledge them, struggle against them, and put them away?

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Pity’s tears are spontaneous.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anna Cora Mowatt (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.