“Conscience is justice's best minister; it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control; the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its upbraidings. While conscience is our friend all is peace; but if once offended farewell the tranquil mind.” IfsMindJusticePowerfulPromiseConscienceAngryRewardsEndureBusyMinistersMost PowerfulSubmitFarewellOffendedTranquilReproof Author:Mary Wortley Montagu
“While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.” InspirationalMindFunnyPeaceConscienceTranquilityFarewellOffendedTranquilGoodbye FarewellSaying FarewellFarewell FriendFarewell LoveOffended You Author:Mary Wortley Montagu
“There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.” IfsGivingWritingMindBookEasySolitudeQuietRemedyCheerfulness Book:Letters Source: Letters
“Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge. . . and the longest life is too short.” LifeMindDoeCareLife IsPassionNaturalKnowledgeVirtueFlowerProductsDemandSelf ImprovementAddFruitVicesEmploymentSoilCherishWeedPerpetualToo ShortExoticLife Is Too ShortShort LifeSolicitude Book:The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Source: The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
“Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others retiring.” MindFacesPassionEffectsFeaturesStrongestRetiring Book:The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
