#chiefly

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#alike #chiefly #endures #however #intensity

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#chiefly #good #husbands #lovers #their

The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope. ↗

— John Strachan

#catholics #chiefly #church #consider #consisting

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#chiefly #falling #forgetting #how #love

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. ↗

— John Tillotson

#chiefly #fit #flourishes #fools #men

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#chiefly #give #good #riches #time

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#except #mattered #mind #nothing #our

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#complications #events #faith #great #know

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#among #because #bought #chiefly #contemplating

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#despise #despised #dupe #enough #fool