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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Ability category:
There is only one proof of ability - action. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Accidents category:
Accident is veiled necessity. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Aging category:
Old age transfigures or fossilizes. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Aging category:
In youth we learn; in age we understand. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Art category:
When art finds no temple open, it takes refuge in the workshop. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Beauty category:
What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Belief category:
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Children category:
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Contentment category:
To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Discipline category:
As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Enthusiasm category:
None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Experience category:
Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Faith category:
If there be a faith that can remove mountains, it is faith in one's own power. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Fashion category:
So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Fear category:
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Freedom category:
He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Friendship category:
There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Gender category:
- b.1830 d.1916...
A clever woman has millions of born foes - all stupid men. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Gender category:
Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Generosity category:
Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by dash of humor. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Genius category:
Genius points the way; talent pursues it. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Goodness category:
Privilege is the greatest enemy of right. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Goodness category:
Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Grace category:
Grace is the outcome of inward harmony. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Gratitude category:
n every exalted joy, there mingles a sense of gratitude. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Habit category:
You will stay young as long as you learn, form new habits and don't mind being contradicted. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Humour category:
Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Ideas category:
If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Imagination category:
Imaginary evils are incurable. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Immortality category:
Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Knowledge category:
Nobody knows enough, but many know too much. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Life category:
Only the thinking man lives his life; the thoughtless man's life passes him by. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Love category:
Pity is love in undress. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Mistakes category:
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Money category:
The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Morality category:
Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Opportunity category:
Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Optimism category:
Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Passion category:
Passion is always suffering, even when gratified. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Patience category:
He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Plagiarism category:
Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Possessions category:
Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants' quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Procrastination category:
When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Responsibility category:
Do your duty until it becomes your joy. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Rules category:
Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Success category:
Conquer, but don't triumph. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Suffering category:
Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Thought category:
One thought cannot awake without awakening others. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Time category:
Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Trust category:
There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Understanding category:
Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Vanity category:
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Vanity category:
Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men? (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Wisdom category:
Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Wisdom category:
The wise man is seldom prudent. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Work category:
The insignificant labor; the great create. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - From the Worth category:
We are valued wither too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
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