“It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.” MenMindEndsShowsPoorPovertyStruggleProudEmptyRuinedHollowPursesPretence Author:Anna Brownell Jameson
“If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her nature; and if there be love on his side, the chances are that in the end she will elevate and refine him.” IfsMenMindEndsSidesChanceSuperiorsMiserableInferiorsVulgarChances AreWedlock Book:A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected
“In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.” SoulEndsEvilPeaceMoralPrinciplesMotiveWickednessFanaticismUbuntu Book:A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected
