"Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading."

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Source : Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1856). “The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.376

Mary Wortley Montagu

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“Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.”
“People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant. If you are righteous, then what you do will also be righteous. We should not think that holiness is based on what we do but rather on what we are, for it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.”
“My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am”
“I understand people have to go to work and earn money and bring up kids, but I always thought, "Why can't I just do what I want to do?"”

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“Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus - it's simply learning how to focus.”
“The story of Hosea and Gomer is the second most powerful picture of God's love in the Bible. Other than Christ's death, there is no greater picture of love.”
“I'd love to be a dead body in the emergency room and have George Clooney go, 'This one's gone!' while he puts a sheet on me.”

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