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There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.
Margaret Deland
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Margaret Deland
Age: 87 †
Born: 1857
Born: February 23
Died: 1945
Died: January 13
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Allegheny
Pennsylvania
Margaretta Wade Campbell
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
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What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.
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... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.
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I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.
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... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?
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faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.
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A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
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... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.
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When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.
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a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.
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A letter is a risky thing the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.
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men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
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Twenty-five years ago, Christmas was not the burden that it is now there was less haggling and weighing, less quid pro quo, less fatigue of body, less weariness of soul and, most of all, there was less loading up with trash.
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... there must be reserves -- except with God. The human soul is solitary. But for confession that is different justice and reparation sometimes demand it but, again, justice and courage sometimes forbid it.
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When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.
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By some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed.
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I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.
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gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.
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