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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.

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
Keep
Giving
Real
Way
Things
Invariable
Life
Sharing
Law
Away

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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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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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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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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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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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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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It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.
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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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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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When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
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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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The arbitrary division of one's life into weeks and days and hours seemed, on the whole, useless. There was but one day for the men, and that was pay day, and one for the women, and that was rent day. As for the children, every day was theirs, just as it should be in every corner of the world.
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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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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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What can people not accomplish if they will but master the secret of steadfast perseverance.
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Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.
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