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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.
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
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
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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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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
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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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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
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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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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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Real divorce takes place without a decree.
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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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In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.
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nothing is as conventional as adolescence.
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One must desire something to be alive perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
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The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion.
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A sneer is like a flame it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.
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