Quotes from Lady Marguerite Blessington

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached but great men resemble them not in this particular.

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.

Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner that works and brings it out.

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.

Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.

Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner that works and brings it out.

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.