I think character never changes; the Acorn becomes an Oak, which is very little like an Acorn to be sure, but it never becomes an Ash.
... 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.
- 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
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…
Friendship is far more delicate than love. - Hester Lynch Piozzi
Friendship is far more delicate than love.
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…
Nothing is so fatiguing as the life of a wit. - Hester Lynch Piozzi
Nothing is so fatiguing as the life of a wit.
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.
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. - Hester Lynch Piozzi
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.
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.
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…
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