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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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Allegheny
Pennsylvania
Margaretta Wade Campbell
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
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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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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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... 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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moral vanity is the snare of good people.
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Books are like sapphires they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.
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... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.
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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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I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.
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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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I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.
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In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.
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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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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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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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Real divorce takes place without a decree.
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One must desire something to be alive perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
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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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