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“It is freezing fit to split a stone.”

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Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne was a French noblewoman and writer renowned for her extensive correspondence. Her letters offer valuable insights into the social and cultural life of 17th-century France. more

“... Providence conducts us with so much kindness through the different periods of our life, that we scarcely feel the change; our days glide gently and imperceptibly along, like the motion of the hour-hand, which we cannot discover. ... we advance gradually; we are the same to-day as yesterday, and to-morrow as to-day: thus we go on, without perceiving it, which is a miracle of the Providence I adore.”

Feels Different Hands Hours Kindness Our Lives Goes On Periods Miracle Yesterday Providence Adore Morrow

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life?”

Journey Ought Journey Through Life

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“. . .the most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous. . . the greatest, the least, the rarest, the most common, the most public, the most private till today. . . I cannot bring myself to tell you: guess what it is.”

Today Common Surprising Marvelous Miraculous Astonishing

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again.”

Pain Life Is Desire Evil Enjoy Pleasure Losing Expectations Distance Possession This Life Good And Evil Perpetual Pain And Pleasure

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“. . . long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in . . .”

Ifs Should Mind Long Ends Journey Strange Strange Things Long Journey End Of Journey

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues.”

Way Seems Desire Common Virtue Source

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.”

Thinking Men World Happens Dies Wish Civility

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“There is nothing so lovely as to be beautiful. Beauty is a gift of God and we should cherish it as such.”

Should Beautiful Beauty Lovely Cherish Gift From God

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances. I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.”

Thinking Easy My Own Situation Masters Circumstances Contentment

Book:Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane by Le Sage

Source: Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane by Le Sage

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