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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.
Alice Hegan Rice
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Alice Hegan Rice
Age: 72 †
Born: 1870
Born: January 11
Died: 1942
Died: February 10
Novelist
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Shelbyville
Kentucky
Alice Caldwell Hegan
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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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Joy is at its keenest when contrasted with sorrow, courage at its height when it follows fear, faith at its noblest when it grows from doubt.
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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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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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Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.
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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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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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All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.
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any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.
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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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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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I believe in the immortality of the soul because I cannot conceive of an intelligent First Cause creating human beings through long process of evolution in this world only to destroy them.
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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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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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