"And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation."

-- Margaret Cavendish

#Understanding Quotes #Loyal Quotes #Dull Quotes

“How much service have I rendered to my people?”

Source : Ernest Thompson Seton, Julia Moss Seton (2005). “The Gospel of the Redman”, p.3, World Wisdom, Inc
“Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.”
“I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing...forgiveness.”

Source : Rosa Nouchette Carey (1894). “Lover Or Friend”
“Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right and something else which manifestly succeeds?”
“A woman isn't very powerful without her intuition.”
“A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears.”
“I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.”
“I would also argue that there is a good chance that an outline will help you stave off any onslaught of writer's block. Let me advise you right up front that I am not a big believer in writer's block. I think writer's block is God's way of telling you one of two things - that you failed to think your material through sufficiently before you started writing, or that you need a day or two off with your family and friends.”

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