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men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
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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Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.
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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
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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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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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... 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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The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion.
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There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.
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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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