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One must desire something to be alive perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
Margaret Deland
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Margaret Deland
Age: 87 †
Born: 1857
Born: February 23
Died: 1945
Died: January 13
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Margaretta Wade Campbell
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
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When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.
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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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... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.
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conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.
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I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.
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the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.
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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
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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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