50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol Quotes

“I left instructions for shipping my containers of stuffed animals and dried plants”
― Various, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

“The common narwhale, or sea unicorn,”
― Various, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

“How infinitely good that Providence is, which has provided, in its government of mankind, such narrow bounds to his sight and knowledge of things; and though he walks in the midst of so many thousand dangers, the sight of which, if discovered to him, would distract his mind and sink his spirits, he is kept serene and calm, by having the events of things hid from his eyes, and knowing nothing of the dangers which surround him.”
― Various, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

“Thus, we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.”
― Various, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

“All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.”
― Various, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

“It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than to achieve themselves. Indirectly, by means of tact and a spotless name, a lady could accomplish much. But if she rushed into the fray herself she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored.”
― Various, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

“what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.”
― Various, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

“There can be no disparity in marriage, like unsuitability of mind and purpose.”
― Various, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

“The first mistaken impulse of an undisciplined heart.”
― Various, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

“I resolved to do what I could, in a quiet way, to improve our proceedings myself, but I foresaw that my utmost would be very little, or I must degenerate into the spider again, and be for ever lying in wait. And the shadow I have mentioned, that was not to be between us any more, but was to rest wholly on my own heart? How did that fall? The old unhappy feeling pervaded my life. It was deepened, if it were changed at all; but it was as undefined as ever, and addressed me like a strain of sorrowful music faintly heard in the night. I loved my wife dearly, and I was happy; but the happiness I had vaguely anticipated, once, was not the happiness I enjoyed, and there was always something wanting.”
― Various, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

“It’s better for me to be stupid than uncomfortable, isn’t it?’ said Dora.”
― Various, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

“There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose’ -‘no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.”
― Various, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
― Various, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

“Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.”
― Various, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

“There could have been no such Revolution, if all laws, forms, and ceremonies, had not first been so monstrously abused, that the suicidal vengeance of the Revolution was to scatter them all to the winds.”
― Various, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”
― Various, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1