47 ordspråk av Mary Worley Montagu

Mary Worley Montagu

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I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dégout given by satiety.

But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.

The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.

General notions are generally wrong

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune

It goes far toward reconciling me to being a woman when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of marrying one

People earnestly seeking what they do not want, while they neglect the real blessings in their possession, I mean the innocent gratification of their senses, which is all we can properly call our own

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.

Mänskliga seder skiljer sig inte så mycket som våra reseförfattare skulle få oss att tro. Kanske skulle det vara mer underhållande att lägga till några överraskande sedvänjor av min egen uppfinning, men ingenting verkar så behagligt för mig som sanningen.

The manners of mankind do not differ so widely as our voyage writers would make us believe. Perhaps it would be more entertaining to add a few surprising customs of my own invention, but nothing seems to me so agreeable as truth.

Menneskeheten

I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasure for every state.

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

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