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• Coleridge cried; "O God, how glorious it is to live!" Renan asks, "O God, when will it be worth while to live?" In Nature we echo the poet; in the world we echo the thinker.

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  Life, Echoes, World

  Ouida (1889). “Chandos. Randolph Gordon. Slander and sillery. Blue and yellow. Belles and blackcock. A line in the "Daily"”

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• Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight which no philters and no prayers can renew when once it has fled forever?
  Women are so unwise. Love is like a bird's song beautiful and eloquent when heard in forest freedom, harsh and worthless in repetition when sung from behind prison bars.
  You cannot secure love by vigilance, by environment, by captivity. What use is it to keep the person of a man beside you if his soul be truant from you?

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  Beautiful, Song, Prayer

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• A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

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  Men, Blood, May

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.100, Ouida

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• Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible; without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.

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  Garden, Bears, Would Be

  Ouida (1889). “Works: Pascarel”

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• Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

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  Fall, Arrows, Scandal

  Ouida (1875). “Chandos: A Novel”, p.60

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• In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth.

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  Death, Animal, Agony

  Ouida (1901). “Critical Studies”

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• It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.

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  Poverty, Hitting, Kind

  Ouida (1873). “Pascarèl: Only a Story”, p.78

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• Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.

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  Flower, Next, Sun

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.33, Ouida

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• There is no more terrible woe upon earth than the woe of the stricken brain, which remembers the days of its strength, the living light of its reason, the sunrise of its proud intelligence, and knows that these have passed away like a tale that is told.

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  Light, Sunrise, Brain

  Ouida (1874). “Folle-Farine”, p.196

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• Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.

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  Littles, Fame, Notoriety

  Ouida (1890*). “Othmar. Friendship. And other stories”

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• It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Death, Seems

  Ouida (1882). “In Maremma: A Story”

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• Excess always carries its own retribution.

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  Excess, Retribution, Carrie

  Ouida (1884). “Princess Napraxine”

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• A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead. GENNITA LOW, Facing Fear To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

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  Vices, New Life, Lessons

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• Belief of some sort is the lifeblood of Art.

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  Art, Belief

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.12, Ouida

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• It needs a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude.

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  Gratitude, Needs, Weight

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.311, Ouida

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• It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.

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  Dream, Motivation, Adversity

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• Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.

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  Men, Optimism, Looks

  Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies”, p.131

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• A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks of it.

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  Philosophy, Thinking, Pockets

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.6, Ouida

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• Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.

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  Art, Feet, Gold

  Ouida (1873). “Pascarèl: Only a Story”, p.24

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• Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love.

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  Enemy, Atheism, Christianity

  Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

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• There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.

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  Men, Applause, Throat

  Ouida (1896). “Pipistrello: And Other Stories”

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• A man may be a great statesman, and yet dislike his wife, and like somebody else's. A man may be a great hero, and yet he may have an unseemly passion, or an unpaid tailor. But the British public does not understand this. ... It thinks, unhappily or happily as you may choose to consider, that genius should keep the whole ten commandments. Now, genius is conspicuous for breaking them.

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  Hero, Passion, Men

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• The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.

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  Art, Thinking, People

  Ouida (1881). “Friendship, a Story”

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• Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked.

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  Poison, Hedgerows, Beard

  Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies”, p.444

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• [On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.

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  Lying, Hypocrisy, Religion

  Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

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