Francis Alexander Durivage Quotes

• ¡Cuánto amor yace enterrado en tumbas polvorientas!

  Francis Alexander Durivage

  Death, Lying, Graves

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• The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened.

  Francis Alexander Durivage

  Humor, Ignorant, Enlightened

  Francis Alexander Durivage (1856). “The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage: And Other Tales”, p.52

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• If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times.

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  Beautiful, Echoes, Devil

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• The highest art is artlessness.

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  Art, Art Is, Highest

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• Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence; only the success of the false is temporary, that of the true, immortal.

  Francis Alexander Durivage

  Real, Light, Merit

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• El diamante del carácter se revela por la conmoción de la desgracia, como el esplendor de la joya preciosa de la mina se desarrolla por los golpes del lapidario.

  Francis Alexander Durivage

  Character, Blow, Jewels

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• To write for a living, according to Mr. Whipple, is coquetting with starvation.

  Francis Alexander Durivage

  Writing, Starvation

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• There are some professed Christians who would gladly burn their enemies, but yet who forgive them merely because it is heaping coals of fire on their heads.

  Francis Alexander Durivage

  Christian, Revenge, Fire

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