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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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Alice Hegan Rice
Age: 72 †
Born: 1870
Born: January 11
Died: 1942
Died: February 10
Novelist
Writer
Shelbyville
Kentucky
Alice Caldwell Hegan
Lays
Dust
Rose
Philosophy
Spectacles
Reality
Colored
Substance
Keeping
Philosopher

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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 hardest grief is often that which leaves no trace.
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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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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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even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.
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any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.
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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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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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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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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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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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No teaching that is not based on reason can be tolerated by critical minds, but the belief that an accident of blind force produces this highly organized world is far more fantastic than the theory that a Super Intelligence devised its ordered evolution.
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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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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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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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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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Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.
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Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.
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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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