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Margaret Deland Inspirational Quotes (53)

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A letter is a risky thing the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.
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the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!
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conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.
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The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.
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it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.
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We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.
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There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.
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Books are like sapphires they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.
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There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love reason cannot weaken it hate cannot destroy it.
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moral vanity is the snare of good people.
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Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.
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A sneer is like a flame it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.
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I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.
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the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.
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... Love never forgets or if it does, it is an imperfect love, like the beautiful love of a dog, faithful and unreasoning.
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Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.
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In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.
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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
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I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.
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Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.
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The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion.
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I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.
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One must desire something to be alive perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
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There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.
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