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The world was hers for the reading.
Betty Smith
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Betty Smith
Age: 75 †
Born: 1896
Born: December 15
Died: 1972
Died: January 17
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Elisabeth Lillian Wehner
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I never listen to what people tell me and I can't read. The only way I know what is right and wrong is the way I feel about things. If I feel bad, it's wrong. If I feel good, it's right.
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We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it.
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From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.
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People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.
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Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.
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Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.
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They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.
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No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps, and it was the only tree that grew out of cement. It grew lushly, but only in the tenements districts.... That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people.
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This could be a whole life, she thought. You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this.
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There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory.
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She had heard Papa sing so many songs about the heart the heart that was breaking - was aching - was dancing -was heavy laden - that leaped for joy - that was heavy in sorrow - that turned over - that stood still. She really believed the heart actually did those things.
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Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time.
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A child forgets a time of hunger but never forgets the aching want of other things.
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It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she had been born into and that these other worlds were not unattainable.
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As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl of candy, and all alone in the house, the leaf shadows shifted and the afternoon passed.
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Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.
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