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Adela Florence Nicolson Quotes

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

Adela Florence Nicolson
Fighting, Men, Thinking

Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.

Adela Florence Nicolson
Weed, Marijuana, Doors
'The Garden of Kama' (1901) 'Less than the Dust'

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

Adela Florence Nicolson
Desire, Virtue, Devotion

Red lips like a living, laughing rose.

Adela Florence Nicolson
Laughing, Rose, Red

I shall go the way of the open sea, To the lands I knew before you came, And the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me The memory of your name.

Adela Florence Nicolson
Love, Memories, Ocean

For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.

Adela Florence Nicolson
Fate, Acceptance, Giving

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