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Margaret Deland Inspirational Quotes (53)

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A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
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What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.
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Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.
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When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.
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... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.
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... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.
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When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.
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gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.
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There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.
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faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.
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... there must be reserves -- except with God. The human soul is solitary. But for confession that is different justice and reparation sometimes demand it but, again, justice and courage sometimes forbid it.
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Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.
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If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.
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there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.
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men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
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Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.
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Anger as well as love casts out fear.
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I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.
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a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.
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By some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed.
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... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.
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Twenty-five years ago, Christmas was not the burden that it is now there was less haggling and weighing, less quid pro quo, less fatigue of body, less weariness of soul and, most of all, there was less loading up with trash.
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Convictions do not imply reasons.
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Real divorce takes place without a decree.
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