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A sneer is like a flame it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.
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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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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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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Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.
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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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If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.
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nothing is as conventional as adolescence.
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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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... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.
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Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.
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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous 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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There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.
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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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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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men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
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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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One must desire something to be alive perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
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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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