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Nature always levies her tribute.
Gene Stratton-Porter
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Gene Stratton-Porter
Age: 61 †
Born: 1863
Born: August 17
Died: 1924
Died: December 6
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Geneva Grace Stratton
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Sometimes it seems to me that the more we get hurt in this world the decenter it makes us.
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Be sure that you are right and then go ahead.
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Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.
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When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.
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We never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine piece of furniture.
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Tears were a blessing they were a relief they did wash the ache from the heart, ease brain strain, and encourage the soul.
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The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people.
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Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.
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Now what is a guest? A thing of a day! A person who disturbs your routine and interferes with important concerns. Why should any one be grateful for company? Why should time and money be lavished on visitors? They come. You overwork yourself. They go. You are glad of it. You return the visit, because it's the only way to have back at them.
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There was an exquisitely beautiful conception in my brain when I did this piece of work all alone from midnight until morning after the experience of a wonderful day. But I was not able to make the consummation anywhere nearly as beautiful as the inspiration. That, I suppose, is the cry of every heart struggling for self-expression.
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Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.
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I don't so much mind the falling, but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on.
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In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception
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a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.
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Every intoxicating delight of early spring was in the air. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume and the crisp, fresh odor of unfolding leaves.
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You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.
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But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys, objected Elnora. Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy.
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It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.
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it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.
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I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.
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