Lyons Quotes by Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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• It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes.
• Tears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth;…
• Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.
• The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.
• Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
• Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.
• Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.
• In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does…
• There is no magician like love.
• Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence…
• Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.
• Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

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