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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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Alice Hegan Rice
Age: 72 †
Born: 1870
Born: January 11
Died: 1942
Died: February 10
Novelist
Writer
Shelbyville
Kentucky
Alice Caldwell Hegan
Action
Thought
Whistle
Become
Sing
Part
Smile
Play
Influence
Sometimes
Forget
Happiness
Upon

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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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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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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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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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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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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 is not what we have but what we do with what we have that constitutes the value of life.
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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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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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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'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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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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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 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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Somehow, I never feel like good things b'long to me till I pass 'em on to somebody else.
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Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.
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What can people not accomplish if they will but master the secret of steadfast perseverance.
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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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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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