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What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.

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Amelia Barr
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Silver Spring
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I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.
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the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.
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It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.
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It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
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Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life my daily life would be far poorer, if it wanted the second sight of dreams.
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what is unreasonable is irrefutable.
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move not in your anger it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
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Mediocrity is always in a rush but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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... how poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them.
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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
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... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
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... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.
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