7 Quotes by Elisabeth of Wied


  • Author Elisabeth of Wied
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    You can never make someone punctual who is not, or quick who is slow, or lively who wants to plod on carefully. I have learnt that every fault is an exaggerated quality, nothing else.

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    Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.

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    I am quite above physical death and believe it to be only the birth throes for a much purer life in a much purer draping.

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    One doesn’t know one’s self what grain one sows, that works on and on, through one and through many lives, transmitted from heart to heart and from lips to lips.

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    My greatest wish is to write in such a manner that all may think they have written it themselves.

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