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Mary Roberts Rinehart Inspirational Quotes (58)

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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied!
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Death was a beginning and not an end it was the morning of the spirit. Tired bodies lay down to sleep and their souls wakened to the morning, rested the first fruits of them that slept.
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I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.
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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies ... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason, but an appeal to arms that on women, without a voice to protest, must fall the burden. It is easier to die than to send a son to death.
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I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!
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The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.
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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
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To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.
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Conflict is the very essence of life.
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When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
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the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
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having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
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There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.
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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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there is no truly honest autobiography.
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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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