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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-imogen-guiney/quotations-such-as-have-point-and-lack-triteness-from-the-great-old/)

[Louise Imogen Guiney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-imogen-guiney/)

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## More by Louise Imogen Guiney

> [The hand betrays the heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-imogen-guiney/the-hand-betrays-the-heart/)

[Louise Imogen Guiney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-imogen-guiney/)

> [Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-imogen-guiney/quotations-such-as-have-point-and-lack-triteness-from-the-great-old/)

[Louise Imogen Guiney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-imogen-guiney/)

> [Family traits, like murder, will out. Nature has but so many molds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-imogen-guiney/family-traits-like-murder-will-out-nature-has-but-so-many-molds/)

[Louise Imogen Guiney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-imogen-guiney/)

> [With fatal, fatal Love a girlhood goes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-imogen-guiney/with-fatal-fatal-love-a-girlhood-goes/)

[Louise Imogen Guiney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-imogen-guiney/)

> [My own passion, all my life, has been non-collecting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-imogen-guiney/my-own-passion-all-my-life-has-been-non-collecting/)

[Louise Imogen Guiney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-imogen-guiney/)

> [Idleness, simon-pure, from which all manner of good springs like seed from a fallow soil, is sure to be misnamed and misconstrued.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-imogen-guiney/idleness-simon-pure-from-which-all-manner-of-good-springs-like-seed/)

[Louise Imogen Guiney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-imogen-guiney/)

> [Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-imogen-guiney/children-are-born-optimists-and-we-slowly-educate-them-out-of-their/)

[Louise Imogen Guiney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-imogen-guiney/)

> [The fears of what may come to pass, I cast them all away, Among the clover scented grass, Among the new-mown hay.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-imogen-guiney/the-fears-of-what-may-come-to-pass-i-cast-them-all-away-among-the/)

[Louise Imogen Guiney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-imogen-guiney/)

> [Youth, ah, Youth! all men's desire and sorrow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-imogen-guiney/youth-ah-youth-all-men-s-desire-and-sorrow/)

[Louise Imogen Guiney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-imogen-guiney/)

> [No pleasure or success in life quite meets the capacity of our hearts. We take in our good things with enthusiasm, and think ourselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-imogen-guiney/no-pleasure-or-success-in-life-quite-meets-the-capacity-of-our-hearts/)

[Louise Imogen Guiney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-imogen-guiney/)

> [Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely diverse appraisements,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-imogen-guiney/life-is-legal-tender-and-individual-character-stamps-its-value-we-are/)

[Louise Imogen Guiney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-imogen-guiney/)

> [Very few can be trusted with an education.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-imogen-guiney/very-few-can-be-trusted-with-an-education/)

[Louise Imogen Guiney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-imogen-guiney/)

> [Youth is slipping, dripping, pearl on pearl, away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-imogen-guiney/youth-is-slipping-dripping-pearl-on-pearl-away/)

[Louise Imogen Guiney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-imogen-guiney/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-imogen-guiney/i-am-not-in-the-least-given-to-any-violent-interest-in-womankind/)

[Louise Imogen Guiney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-imogen-guiney/)

> [Character demonstrates itself in trifles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-imogen-guiney/character-demonstrates-itself-in-trifles/)

[Louise Imogen Guiney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-imogen-guiney/)

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