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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!

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
Use
Feelings
Keep
Firsts
Feelin
First
Berry
Done
Vinegar
Thing
Berries
Like
Ems

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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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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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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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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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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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happiness is a duty, not only because of its effect upon us but because of its influence upon others.
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any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.
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The hardest grief is often that which leaves no trace.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It is not what we have but what we do with what we have that constitutes the value of life.
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Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.
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