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Marie Corelli (/kɔːˈrɛli/; 1 May 1855 – 21 April 1924) was an English novelist and mystic.

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I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep.

Feeling, Feelings, Say, Speak, Think, Thinking

Years should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or consider them? In the world of wild Nature, time is measured by seasons only-the bird does not know how old it is-the rose-tree does not count its birthdays!

Nature, Rose, Seasons, Time, Wild, Years

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

Envy, Giving, Handle, Hatred, Minds

What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

Fool, Instead, Laughing, Laughs, Laughter, Thinking

It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!

Winning, Difficult, Keep, Love, Win

Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of it to places he has never seen, and surrounds him with strange circumstances of which he is merely the spiritual eyewitness.

Conveys, Imagination, Sight, Spiritual, Strange, Supreme

Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.

Discourse, Having, Summer, Sunshine, Two, Yesterday

If we choose to be no more than clods of clay, then we shall be used as clods of day for braver feet to tread on.

Braver, Clay, Feet, Used

There is no wealth but love.

Love, Wealth

An opinion which excites no opposition at all is not worth having!

Having, Opinion, Opposition, Worth

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

Believe, Contented, Desire, Necessary, World

Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love - and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.

Greedy, Miserable, Quite, Selfish

There is nothing so inconvenient in this world as an absolutely truthful person, who can both speak and write, and has the courage of his convictions. One can always arrange matters with liars. . . But with the man or woman who holds truth dearer than life, and honor more valuable than advancement, there is nothing to be done, now that governments cannot insist on the hemlock-cure, as in the case of Socrates.

Advancement, Courage, Liars, Truth, Truthful, Writing

How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion!

Confusion, Foolish, Men, Obey, Would Be

Love, if it be love indeed, asks no permission as to where it shall seek vantage ground or gain its victory - it is of all powers the most unfettered and the one which takes the widest course of largest liberty.

Gains, Ground, Largest, Liberty, Seek, Victory

nobody ever intends to be old.

Age, Intends, Nobody, Old, Old Age

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

Answer, Dog, Funny, Marriage, Swears, Wedding

Art is sexless; - good work is eternal, no matter whether it is man or woman who has accomplished it. . . . Ah, but the world will never own woman's work to be great even if it be so, because men give the verdict, and man's praise is for himself and his own achievements always.

Accomplished, Achievements, Art, Giving, Men, Work

religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.

Poetry, Poetry Is, Religion

One of the advantages or disadvantages of the way in which we live in these modern days is that we are ceasing to feel. That is to say we do not permit ourselves to be affected by either death or misfortune, provided these natural calamities leave our own persons unscathed.

Compassion, Days, Death, Modern, Say, Way

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