 | 1849 - 734 Seiten
...Naples? It is a creed that the people there form naturally from what they see around them; and " if to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all*," so, to worship foolishly may claim a similar superiority. Well— one morning, some weeks after the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1849 - 454 Seiten
...This speech, we say, is no business of ours. It was most likely not very wise, but what right have we to overhear? Let the poor boy fling out his simple...at this very moment, and while Mrs. Dean and Doctor Portinan were engaged in conversation, that young Master Ridley Roset, her son, pulled his mother by... | |
 | 1874 - 714 Seiten
...Than never to have loved at all." Tennyson's In Afcmoriam. " It is best to love wisely, no donbt ; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all." — Thackeray's Pendennis, chap. vi. vol. i. "As tbe gambler said of his dee, to love and win is the... | |
 | James Hannay - 1849 - 332 Seiten
...Naples ? It is a creed that the people there form naturally from what they see around them ; and " if to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all*," so, to worship foolishly may claim a similar superiority. Well—one morning, some weeks after the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1850 - 394 Seiten
...This speech, we say, is no business of ours. It was most likely not very wise, but what right have wo to overhear ? Let the poor boy fling out his simple...very moment, and while Mrs. Dean and Doctor Portman .vere engaged in conversation, that young Master Ridley Roset, her son, pulled his mother by the back... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1881 - 226 Seiten
...better to have been left than never to have been loved.' CONGREVE, Way of the World. ' It is better to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.' THACKERAY, Pendennis. ' He who for love has undergone The worst that can befall, Is happier thousand-fold... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 Seiten
...better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all. i. TENNYSON— In Memoriam. Pt. XXVII. It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. j. THACKERAY— Pendennis. Ch. VL And let th' aspiring youth beware of love, Of the smooth glance beware;... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1882 - 448 Seiten
...by thousands of little stars, of which each perhaps is nebulous. — Henri Beyle. 3233 It is better to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. — Thackeray. 3234 The rank of the man rates that of his wife. — Walter Scott. For her heart was... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 572 Seiten
...Miss Costigan, perhaps with a sort of pity for Pen. Think he did ! Of course here Mr. Pen went off into a rhapsody which, as we have perfect command...Some of us can't : and are proud of our impotence I too. At the end of his speech, Pen again kissed the imperial hand with rapture — and I believe... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 Seiten
...man for loving her, unless she happens to return his love. 3372 Elizabeth Stoddard : Two Men. Ch. 32. It is best to love wisely, no doubt ; but to love...foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. 3373 Thackeray : PendennU. Ch. 6. Love is master of the wisest. It is only fools who defy him. 3374... | |
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It is best to love wisely, no doubt : but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. 
