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Convictions do not imply reasons.
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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the blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light.
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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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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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There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.
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Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope.
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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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There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love reason cannot weaken it hate cannot destroy it.
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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
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... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.
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Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.
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there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.
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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
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... Love never forgets or if it does, it is an imperfect love, like the beautiful love of a dog, faithful and unreasoning.
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There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.
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A letter is a risky thing the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.
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A sneer is like a flame it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.
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If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.
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Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.
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