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What can people not accomplish if they will but master the secret of steadfast perseverance.

Alice Hegan Rice

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Alice Hegan Rice
Age: 72 †
Born: 1870
Born: January 11
Died: 1942
Died: February 10
Novelist
Writer
Shelbyville
Kentucky
Alice Caldwell Hegan
Master
Masters
Secret
People
Steadfast
Perseverance
Accomplish

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There is no doubt about it that it is more difficult for a woman to follow a career than for a man. Through the centuries his time has been considered more valuable, and he has consequently been excused from wrestling with many of 'life's minor damnabilities.
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The discovery that it is in our power to change our lives by the thoughts we think is the first step toward spiritual mastery.
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The fascinating thing about ideals is that no sooner have we gained a desired peak than we find farther and higher peaks beyond. The thrilling adventure never ends.
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Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute, and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best for us in the end.
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happiness is a duty, not only because of its effect upon us but because of its influence upon others.
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Somehow, I never feel like good things b'long to me till I pass 'em on to somebody else.
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even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.
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Some people act as if there were a penalty for carrying concealed troubles. They exhibit them at every opportunity, begging for sympathy, even condescending to accept pity. Such persons never realize that the very ones to whom they are complaining are often struggling under a burden greater than their own.
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The hardest grief is often that which leaves no trace.
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Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles.
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Cheerfulness is a debt we owe to society, in the paying of which we receive a generous discount. We can not open our hearts to give out cheer without more cheer rushing in to take its place.
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It is a terrifying as well as hopeful truth that we tend to bring into being in form whatever we fashion in thought.
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It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.
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there ain't no use in dyin' 'fore yer time. Lots of folks is walkin' 'round jes' as dead as they'll ever be.
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I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good books together. Domestic problems and personal problems are for the time forgotten, and an intellectual intimacy is established that can be maintained in few other ways.
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When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
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Just as a pool of water cannot reflect the sky overhead when it is restless and disturbed, so we can never get a perfect vision of the Divine, and show it to others when we are disturbed with human thoughts and personal problems. It is only when we are quite still and receptive that God can think His thoughts into us and use us for His purposes.
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Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.
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Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.
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Metaphysicians tell us that it is easier to get the body well than to get the mind to realize its wellness.
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