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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.

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
Good
Higher
Life
Liberty
Justice
Beauty
Belief
Evolved
True
Ideal
Form
Forms
Nothing
Ideals

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The hardest grief is often that which leaves no trace.
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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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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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When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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There is no doubt about it that it is more difficult for a woman to follow a career than for a man. Through the centuries his time has been considered more valuable, and he has consequently been excused from wrestling with many of 'life's minor damnabilities.
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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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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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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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It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.
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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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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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