Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes - Page 2

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• Consider once before you give, twice before you receive, and a thousand times before you ask.

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  Giving, Favors, Thousand

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• One thought cannot awake without awakening others.

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  Awakening, Awake

  "Aphorisms". Book by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880-1893.

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• What you wish to do you are apt to think you ought to do.

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  Thinking, Wish, Wishful Thinking

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• To be satisfied with little is hard, to be satisfied with a lot is impossible.

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  Littles, Impossible, Satisfied

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• Grace is the outcome of inward harmony.

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  Grace, Inward, Outcomes

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• Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

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  Learning, Men, Thinking

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• Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Understanding

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• We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.

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  Patience, Waiting

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• Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

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  Fear, Dodge, Arguing

  "Aphorisms". Book by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1905.

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• They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.

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  Understanding, Littles

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• The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.

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  Lying, Littles, Terrible

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.

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  Long, Links, Lasts

  "Aphorisms". Book by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880-1893.

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• Origins are of the greatest importance. We are almost reconciled to having a cold when we remember where we caught it.

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  Answers, Cold, Remember

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• Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.

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  Women, Thinking, Long

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• It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other.

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  People, Married, Enough

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• Do not fear the ones who argue, but rather those who are evasive.

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  Arguing, Do Not Fear

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• To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.

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  Giving, Stealing

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• Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

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  Opportunity, Crops

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.

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  Disrespect, Good Man, World

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

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  Children, Parenting, Inspire

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• Deep learning doesn't shine.

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  Shining, Deep Learning

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• How wise must one be to be always kind.

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  Wise, Kindness, Kind

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• Passion is always suffering, even when gratified.

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  Passion, Suffering

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• Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.

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  Moving, Intellectual, Comfort

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• Those who know nothing must believe everything.

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  Believe, Knowledge, Knows

  "Aphorisms". Book by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1893.

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