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Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.

Margaret Deland

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Margaret Deland
Age: 87 †
Born: 1857
Born: February 23
Died: 1945
Died: January 13
Author
Autobiographer
Novelist
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University Teacher
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Allegheny
Pennsylvania
Margaretta Wade Campbell
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
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the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!
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there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.
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I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.
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... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.
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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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Anger as well as love casts out fear.
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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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it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.
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The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion.
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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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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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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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... 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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the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.
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moral vanity is the snare of good people.
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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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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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