Thrale Quotes & Sayings

If there is anything that can bind the mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile us with our fate so that one can enjoy living, - then it is verily the enjoyment of the mathematical sciences and astronomy. — Johannes Kepler

Make your life a masterpiece: Step beyond the demands of the moment and begin right now to design and live the life you deserve. — Tony Robbins

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The language of Doctor Johnson and Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale, and that of their adult contemporaries, was the stately language of the time, polished, stylish, unordinary, even in the intimate pages of their diaries, and the regime of instruction was severe and practical. — Robert Burchfield

In a man's letters, you know, madam, his soul lies naked. His letters are only the mirror of his heart. Whatever passes within him is there shown undisguised in its natural progress; nothing is invented, nothing distorted; you see systems in their elements, you discover action in their motives. Samuel Johnson to Mrs. Thrale (1777) — Michael Kelahan

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty. — Edward Coke

When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths. — Clarice Lispector

Why did the best answers to unfounded criticism always come to a person while stewing about the situation afterward? — Laura Lee Guhrke

Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end. — Thomas Otway

White people on Facebook, I discovered by reading people's messages and walls, tended to lurk and judge. — Katherine Losse

What can I tell you? Love's a bitch. — Gayle Forman