We look on those approaching the banks of a river all must cross, with ten times the interest they excited when dancing in the meadow.
The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing to concede; a… - Hester Lynch Piozzi
The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing to concede; a…
- Hester Lynch Piozzi
If truth can be found in any sublunary science, numbers will produce it, for to that at last almost all other sciences refer for confirmation. - Hester Lynch Piozzi
If truth can be found in any sublunary science, numbers will produce it, for to that at last almost all other sciences refer for confirmation.
Nothing is so fatiguing as the life of a wit. - Hester Lynch Piozzi
Nothing is so fatiguing as the life of a wit.
Friendship is far more delicate than love. - Hester Lynch Piozzi
Friendship is far more delicate than love.
Friendship is far more delicate than love. Quarrels and fretful complaints are attractive in the last, offensive in the first. And the very things wh… - Hester Lynch Piozzi
Friendship is far more delicate than love. Quarrels and fretful complaints are attractive in the last, offensive in the first. And the very things wh…
... one should know the value of Life better than to pout any part of it away. - Hester Lynch Piozzi
... one should know the value of Life better than to pout any part of it away.
A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass. - Hester Lynch Piozzi
A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.
Every one in this world has as much as they can do in caring for themselves, and few have leisure really to think of their neighbours distresses, how… - Hester Lynch Piozzi
Every one in this world has as much as they can do in caring for themselves, and few have leisure really to think of their neighbours distresses, how…
'Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fon… - Hester Lynch Piozzi
'Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fon…
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