1734

It is very difficult not to find beauty in a woman whose every word, every action, whose whole existence, signify, "I desire to please you.". Mme. de Girardin.

1735

How wayward is this foolish love, that like a testy babe will scratch the nurse, and presently, all humble, kiss the rod! Shakespeare.

Chaster than crystal on the Scythian cliffs, the more the proud winds court it, still the purer. - Beaumont.

1738

My daughter, if the cross comes to you as a wife, you must carry it as a wife. You may say, "I will forsake

my husband," but you cannot cease to be a wife. — George Eliot.

1739

The eyes see

- Bovée.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. better for being washed with them.

1740

If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet. Chamfort.

1741

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice. Foubert.

1742

She neglects her heart who studies her glass. — La

vater.

1743

There is only one way to wear a beautiful dress properly, to forget that you have it on. - Mme. de Girardin.

1744

The successful assumption of naïveté by a woman is a great stroke of genius. — Mme. Deluzy.

1745

The Empress of France has but to change the position of a ribbon to set all the ribbons in Christendom to rustling. A single word from her convulses the whalebone markets of the world, and sends a thrill to the most frigid zone, alike of world and woman. — F. G. Holland.

1746

A lovely girl is above all rank.

1747

Charles Buxton.

God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse. - Marguerite de Valois.

1748

To make the cunning artless, tame the rude, subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted soul; yea, put a bridle in the lion's mouth, and lead him forth as a domestic cur, - these are the triumphs of all-powerful beauty. - Joanna Baillie.

1749

Heartlessness and fascination, in about equal quantities, constitute the receipt for forming the character of a coquette. Mme. Deluzy.

1750

Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love. Rochefoucauld.

Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste. ·

1751

1752

Shakespeare.

Blessed be the hand that prepares a pleasure for a child, for there is no saying when and where it may bloom forth. Douglas Ferrold.

1753

Male firmness is very often obstinacy.

always something better, worth all qualities,

Women have

they have

1754

Love seizes upon us suddenly, without the least warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise. One look, one glance, from the fair one fixes and determines us.

Tears,

Bruyère.

1755

eyes filled with more delight than they can hold. Congreve.

1756

As a great part of the uneasiness of matrimony arises. from mere trifles, it would be wise in every young married man to enter into an agreement with his wife that in all disputes of this kind the party who was most convinced they were right should always surrender the victory, by which means both would be more forward to give up the cause. Fielding.

1757

Love is a fire which is self-fed, and does not even require hope to preserve the flame.

1758

Shiel.

With women tears are often only moistened joy. — De Boufflers.

1759

An artful coquette boasts of her successes, but her failures she locks up in her own breast. J. Petit Senn.

1760

The inward fragrance of a young girl's heart is what crystallizes into love. - Richter.

1761

The research for abstract and speculative truths, for principles, for axioms in the sciences, for all that tends. to generalize ideas, is not the province of women; their studies ought all to refer to practice. Rousseau.

1762

Chaste as the icicle that is curdled by the frost from purest snow, and hangs on Dian's temple. Shakespeare.

1763

Painting is an emancipation for young girls; it gives them the right to look men in the face and in detail. Admiration purifies everything. If I had a daughter, she should paint landscapes. Mme. de Girardin.

1764

I marvel, sir, at those who do not feel the majesty — by Heaven! I'd almost said the holiness that circles round the fair and virtuous woman. - Frances Anne Kemble.

1765

Charming women can true converts make; we love the precepts for the teacher's sake. - Franklin.

1766

Of all the joys that brighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new-born child? - Mrs. Norton.

1767

The blush is nature's alarm at the approach of sin, and her testimony to the dignity of virtue. Fuller.

1768

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The poets, the moralists, the painters, in all their descriptions, allegories, and pictures, have represented love as a soft torment, a bitter sweet, a pleasing pain, or an agreeable distress. - Addison.

1769

I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them. that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness. Mary Wollstonecraft.

1770

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Beauty is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furQuarles.

nace.

1771

She had grown in her unstained seclusion bright and pure as a first-opening lilac, when it spreads its clear leaves to the sweetest dawn of May. — Percival.

1772

The honor of a maid is her name; and no legacy is so rich as honesty. - Shakespeare.

1773

If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother into the other, the world would kick the beam. Lord Langdale.

1774

The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity. - Balzac.

1775

The root of sanctity is sanity. We must be healthy before we can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume. Mme. Swetchine.

1776

Woman's heart is still an unsolved riddle. - Rivarol.

1777

It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Perhaps Madame de Maintenon would never have mounted a throne had not her cradle been rocked in a prison. Surmounted obstacles not only teach but hearten us in our future struggles; for virtue must be learnt, though unfortunately some of the vices come as it were by inspiration. — Rev. Dr. Sharpe. 1778

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope!-L. E. Landon.

1779

Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all. —Margaret Fuller Ossoli.

1780

Next to dressing for a rout or ball, undressing is a woe. - Byron.