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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.

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
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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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conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.
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I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.
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moral vanity is the snare of good people.
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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 fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion.
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the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.
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There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.
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... Love never forgets or if it does, it is an imperfect love, like the beautiful love of a dog, faithful and unreasoning.
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Books are like sapphires they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.
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In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.
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men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
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there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.
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... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.
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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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A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
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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'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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