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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.

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
Little
Minutes
Made
Bigs
Life
Desire
Vital
Next
Absurd
Ends
Desires
Seems
Minute
Littles
Guess
Best
Seem

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It is not what we have but what we do with what we have that constitutes the value of life.
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It'll be with me like it was with Uncle Ned's ole ox, I reckon he kep' a-goin' an' a-goin' till he died a-standin' up, an' even then they had to push him over.
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we sometimes forget the influence of action upon thought. ... Smile, whistle, sing, play the part you want to be until you become the part you play.
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any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.
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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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