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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!
Margaret Deland
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Margaret Deland
Age: 87 †
Born: 1857
Born: February 23
Died: 1945
Died: January 13
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Pennsylvania
Margaretta Wade Campbell
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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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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 isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.
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men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
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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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Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.
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A letter is a risky thing the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.
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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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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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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
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In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.
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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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Books are like sapphires they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.
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When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.
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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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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
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The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion.
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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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We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.
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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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