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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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Alice Hegan Rice
Age: 72 †
Born: 1870
Born: January 11
Died: 1942
Died: February 10
Novelist
Writer
Shelbyville
Kentucky
Alice Caldwell Hegan
Time
Round
Rounds
Lots
Folks
Dead
Use
Dyin
Death
Walkin
Ever
Fore

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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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Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.
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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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Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.
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It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.
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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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Yer feelin's is like ras'berry vinegar: if you're skeered to use 'em an' keep on savin' 'em, first thing you know they've done 'vaporated!
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Taking friendships for granted is one of the surest ways of ending them. Unless nourished, they tend to wither and die. Unless we earnestly desire its continuance we should never start a friendship any more than we would a love affair.
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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 fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness.
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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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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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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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Somehow, I never feel like good things b'long to me till I pass 'em on to somebody else.
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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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It seems a strange fact that it is almost more important for us to be happy ourselves than to try to make other people happy. By being happy we confer untold benefits upon our fellow men.
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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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There is an invariable law that the only way to keep the real things of life is by sharing them or giving them away.
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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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