Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Quotes

• There are plenty of fools in the world; but if they had not been sent for some wise purpose, they wouldn't have been here; and since they are here they have as good a right to have elbow-room in the world as the wisest.

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

  Wise, Purpose, Elbows

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1818). “Marriage [by S.E. Ferrier].”, p.332

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• Oh, how easy it must be to be good when one has the power of doing good!

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

  Easy, Goodness, Doing Good

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1882). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. Edinburgh ed”

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• ... what will not the heart endure ere it will voluntarily surrender the hoarded treasure of its love to the cold dictates of reason or the stern voice of duty!

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

  Heart, Voice, Treasure

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.146

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• But who can count the beatings of the lonely heart?

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

  Lonely, Heart, Lonely Heart

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.434

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• There's no doctor like meat and drink.

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

  Food, Doctors, Meat

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• It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride.

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

  Passion, Pride, Human Nature

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.1

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• Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world.

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

  Hands, World, Poverty

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.355

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• lovers, it is well known, carry the art of tautology to its utmost perfection, and even the most impatient of them can both bear to hear and repeat the same things times without number, till the sound becomes the echo to the sense or the nonsense previously uttered.

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

  Art, Numbers, Echoes

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.316

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• It is universally allowed that, though nothing can be more interesting in itself than the conversation of two lovers, yet nothing can be more insipid in detail - just as the heavenly fragrance of the rose becomes vapid and sickly under all the attempts made to retain and embody its exquisite odor.

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

  Two, Rose, Interesting

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.138

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• I'll suffer no daughter of mine to play the fool with her heart, indeed! She shall marry for the purpose for which matrimony was ordained amongst people of birth--that is, for the aggrandisement of her family, the extending of their political influence--for becoming, in short, the depository of their mutual interest. These are the only purposes for which persons of rank ever think of marriage.

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

  Daughter, Heart, Thinking

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1881). “Marriage [by S.E. Ferrier]. Edinb. ed”

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• Beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their prejudices than of anything belonging to them.

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

  Knowing, People, Prejudice

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.6

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• I am for everything starting
  into full-blown perfection
  at once.

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

  Perfection, Starting

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.339

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• ...the synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature.

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

  Women, Religion, Goes On

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1825). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage”, p.121

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