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Elisabeth of Wied Biography

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Princess Elisabeth of Wied, born on December 29, 1843, and died on February 18, 1916. Her career and category are currently limited by available information.

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“Tis the ignorant who boast.”

Ignorance Self Confidence Ignorant Boast

Author:Elisabeth of Wied

“Never can a room look comfortable without books ... Books ought to be scattered all over the house, even in the passages, in the bedroom, les livres du chevet, everywhere.”

Looks Book House Rooms Ought Comfortable Passages Bedroom

Author:Elisabeth of Wied

“I am quite above physical death and believe it to be only the birth throes for a much purer life in a much purer draping.”

Believe Death Birth

Author:Elisabeth of Wied

“You can never make someone punctual who is not, or quick who is slow, or lively who wants to plod on carefully. I have learnt that every fault is an exaggerated quality, nothing else.”

Want Quality Faults Shortcomings Lively Exaggerated Punctual

Author:Elisabeth of Wied

“My greatest wish is to write in such a manner that all may think they have written it themselves.”

Thinking Writing May Wish Written

Author:Elisabeth of Wied

“[Written in 1901:] Nothing has been so deplorable for countries as centralization. I am afraid when I see Germany grow so powerful, and centralizing in Berlin; it is the beginning of the end!”

Has Beens Ends Country Grows Powerful Written Germany Berlin Centralization

Author:Elisabeth of Wied

“One doesn't know one's self what grain one sows, that works on and on, through one and through many lives, transmitted from heart to heart and from lips to lips.”

Knows Heart Self Lips Grain Heart To Heart

Author:Elisabeth of Wied

“It seems enormous to me that we have the idea of eternity, of justice, of purity, of beauty, when everything that we see is so far from all that! Who has put those visions into our heads? The soul that knows so much more than what it sees; the soul that comes from far and goes far, and to whom limits make no difference!”

Knows Ideas Soul Seems Differences Justice Vision Limits Eternity Enormous Purity

Author:Elisabeth of Wied

“Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.”

Friendship Gratitude Photograph Fades

Author:Elisabeth of Wied

“Those who look for reasons to hate miss opportunities to love.”

Love Looks Reason Hate Opportunity Missing Missing Opportunity

Author:Elisabeth of Wied

About the Author

Born: December 29, 1843
Died: February 18, 1916
Known for: Author
Quotes: 10

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