Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.
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Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.Lady Marguerite Blessington
Imagination, which is the eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
His mind was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for errors and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
. . . if those only wrote, who were sure of being read, we should have fewer authors and the shelves of libraries would not groan beneath the weight of dusty tomes more voluminous than luminous.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
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