"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
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"Dictum sapienti sat est - A word to a wise person is sufficient." ~Cicero Ovid Seneca

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Edith Wharton Quotes


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"I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting." ~Edith Wharton

"I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views." ~Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time." ~Edith Wharton

“In spite of illness, in spite even of the arch-enemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.” ~Edith Wharton

"Life is the only real counsellor. Wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue." ~Edith Wharton 

"One knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have critics overlook them and invent others." ~Edith Wharton

"Set wide the window. Let me drink the day." ~Edith Wharton

"Silence may be as variously shaded as speech." ~Edith Wharton

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." ~Edith Wharton

"There’s no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow." ~Edith Wharton

“There was such love as she had dreamed, and she meant to go on believing in it and cherishing the thought that she was worthy of it.” ~Edith Wharton, The Reef from Everyman's Library

"True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision." ~Edith Wharton

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