Begets Quote by Mary Wortley Montagu Download Open image “Solitude begets whimsies.” — Mary Wortley Montagu ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Begets Solitude Whimsy
The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the advantages which… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim. — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself. — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude; for the more delicious the solitude the more… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain; He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares, And sees, resign'd, a… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone! — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations. — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions,… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
It is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass [mirror]. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable I… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
“None strive to know their proper merit But strain for wisdom, beauty, spirit And lose the praise that is their due When they've the… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Cognitive and character skills work together as dynamic complements; they are inseparable. Skills beget skills. More motivated children learn more. Those who are more… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
War destroys. War obliterates. War is ruination. And war begets more war. After thousands of years of experience proving this, and reams of literature… — Lisa Simeone Copy Share Image
Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children. — Enoch Copy Share Image
The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how both beget… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful. — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death. — Horace Copy Share Image
They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer to this… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image