What did Margaret Deland mean by: There isn’t any virtue where there has never been any temptation. - Margaret Deland Author · USA Copy
+ Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Grief, Pay, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader’s frame of mind. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Letters, Mind, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ … some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Floating, Memories, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ conceit is the devil’s horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Conceit, Devil, Horse, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ Truth is like heat or light; its vibrations are endless, and are endlessly felt. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Light, Vibrations, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ I have no faith in a human critter who hasn’t one or two bad habits. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Habit, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ A pint can’t hold a quart – if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Expected, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
+ a manufactured interest has no staying quality – especially if it involves any hard work. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Deland, Hard Work, Interest, Quality, 0 - Margaret Deland Author · USA
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted. - George Eliot Author · England
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
