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Elisabeth of Wied Quotes

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Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.
Elisabeth of Wied

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Never can a room look comfortable without books ... Books ought to be scattered all over the house, even in the passages, in the bedroom, les livres du chevet, everywhere.
Elisabeth of Wied

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Tis the ignorant who boast.
Elisabeth of Wied

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My greatest wish is to write in such a manner that all may think they have written it themselves.
Elisabeth of Wied

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You can never make someone punctual who is not, or quick who is slow, or lively who wants to plod on carefully. I have learnt that every fault is an exaggerated quality, nothing else.
Elisabeth of Wied

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Those who look for reasons to hate miss opportunities to love.
Elisabeth of Wied

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I am quite above physical death and believe it to be only the birth throes for a much purer life in a much purer draping.
Elisabeth of Wied

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[Written in 1901:] Nothing has been so deplorable for countries as centralization. I am afraid when I see Germany grow so powerful, and centralizing in Berlin; it is the beginning of the end!
Elisabeth of Wied

Quote Topics by Elisabeth of Wied: Faults Gratitude Want Writing Ideas Ignorant Lips Ignorance Heart Hate Powerful House Death Looks Believe Friendship Quality Wish Justice Thinking Differences Self Confidence Self Love Berlin Opportunity Country Book Birth Photograph
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One doesn't know one's self what grain one sows, that works on and on, through one and through many lives, transmitted from heart to heart and from lips to lips.
Elisabeth of Wied

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It seems enormous to me that we have the idea of eternity, of justice, of purity, of beauty, when everything that we see is so far from all that! Who has put those visions into our heads? The soul that knows so much more than what it sees; the soul that comes from far and goes far, and to whom limits make no difference!
Elisabeth of Wied