"His purity was too great, his aspiration too……" — Queen Victoria
"His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!"
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Queen Victoria
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44 Quotes by Queen Victoria
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I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and…
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The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as…
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We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe…
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Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty…
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Oh, that peace may come.
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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the…
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Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this…
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We will not have failure - only success and new learning.
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I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than…
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The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked…
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Bring me a cup of tea and the 'Times.'
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My dearest dearest dear Albert sat on a footstool by my side and his excessive love and affection gave me…
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by…
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite,…
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The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.
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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them…
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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything…
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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings…
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up…
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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.
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To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
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