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Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.

Myrtle Reed

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Myrtle Reed
Age: 36 †
Born: 1874
Born: September 27
Died: 1911
Died: August 17
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Journalist
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Illinois
Olive Green
Myrtle Reed MacCollough
Blues
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Sadness
Activity

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Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.
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marriage is a great strain upon love.
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Pedestals are always lonely.
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The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.
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A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.
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All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.
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May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.
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At twenty, men love woman at thirty, a woman and at forty, women.
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Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.
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Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.
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It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.
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The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
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When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.
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Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.
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Making an issue of a little thing is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness.
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If there's anythin' on earth that can be more tryin' than any kind of relative, I don't know what it is, but relatives by marriage comes first - easy.
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Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.
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It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately concern us.
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One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.
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when you can't see straight ahead, it's because you're about to turn a corner.
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