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Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Biography

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington (née Power; 1 September 1789 – 4 June 1849) was an Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess. She became acquainted with Lord Byron in Genoa and wrote a book about him.

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When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. It requires sunshine to be seen by them to advantage!

See, Seen, Shine On, Shining, Sunshine

There is no magician like love.

Like, Like Love, Love, Magician

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

Chains, Ignorance, Keep, Men, Racism

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

Consequences, Difference, Differences, People, Weakness

There are some chagrins of the heart which a friend ought to try to console without betraying a knowledge of their existence, as there are physical maladies which a physician ought to seek to heal without letting the sufferer know that he has discovered their extent.

Heart, Know, Ought, Physical, Physicians, Trying

Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.

Detection, Members, Society, Vices

A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.

Cravings, Cries, Cry, Man, Men, Poverty

To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.

Men, Should, Mankind, Man, Moralists, Ought

A woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.

Head, Heart, Influenced, Men

Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

Genius, Gifts And Talents, Gold, Miner, Talent

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

Belief, Confidence, Fear, Religion, Superstition, Superstitions

[His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness.

Fire, Lightning, Mind, Occasionally, Volcanoes

Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep.

Death, Insupportable, Prospect, Sleep, Would Be

To appear rich, we become poor.

Appear, Become, Poor, Rich

Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves.

Doomed, Good, Hear, Listeners

Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.

Atheism, Despair, Destroys, Religion, Submits

Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.

Against, People, Vanity, War

We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?

Reading, Talking, Thinking, Writing

Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.

Conscience, Forget, Like, Reminds, Satire, Wish

There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened or a wounded heart.

Heart, Knowledge, World, Became, Hardened, Expense

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