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Quote by Marian Engel

“There's a kind of virgin one only becomes with difficulty.”

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Marian Engel was a prominent Canadian novelist born on May 24, 1933, and passed away on February 16, 1985. Her works are known for their delicate emotional descriptions and profound themes concerning women's lives. more

“It's when people begin using their religion as just a way of getting power over other people that scares me. I'm afraid that's what's going on in a lot of cases right now. When people deliberately tell lies, Creationism for instance, and pretend, "Oh, it's not really religion." I mean they know they're lying, and yet they're the religious people. There's something wrong there.”

People Knows Way Mean Lying Religious Cases Right Now Instance Scare Creationism Power Over Others

Author:Octavia Butler

“A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.”

People Long Lifetime

Author:Piet Pieterszoon Hein

“We lie to God in prayer if we do not rely on him afterwards.”

Ifs Lying Prayer Rely

Author:Robert B. Leighton

“The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth, and parts not with it but for the full value.”

Knows Men Values Hours One Day

Author:Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

“Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself.”

Virtue Advice Conversation Vices Former

Author:Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

“Anger is an affected madness, compounded of pride and folly, and an intention to do commonly more mischief than it can bring to pass; and, without doubt, of all passions which actually disturb the mind of man, it is most in our power to extinguish, at least, to suppress and correct, our anger.”

Men Mind Passion Doubt Pride Madness Anger Intention Folly Affected Mischief

Author:Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

“Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather, welcome to all.”

Men Easy Quiet Fairs Anger Angry Storm Weather Welcome Lightning Thunder Tempest Ungrateful Thunder And Lightning

Author:Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

“Envy is a weed that grows in all soils and climates, and is no less luxuriant in the country than in the court; is not confined to any rank of men or extent of fortune, but rages in the breasts of all degrees.”

Men Country Grows Degrees Court Fortune Climate Envy Rage Soil Breasts Weed Confined

Author:Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

“If our credit be so well built, so firm, that it is not easy to be shaken by calumny or insinuation, envy then commends us, and extols us beyond reason to those upon whom we depend, till they grow jealous, and so blow us up when they cannot throw us down.”

Ifs Wells Reason Grows Easy Depends Built Blow Credit Envy Firm Jealous Calumny

Author:Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

“Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.”

Mother Friendship Skills Observation Nurse Tenderness Physicians Diligence Vigilance Best Mother

Author:Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

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