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Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.

Myrtle Reed

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Myrtle Reed
Age: 36 †
Born: 1874
Born: September 27
Died: 1911
Died: August 17
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Myrtle Reed MacCollough
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Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.
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... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.
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marriage is a great strain upon love.
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Revolution is obstructed evolution.
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No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.
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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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There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.
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I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.
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Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.
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I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.
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Making an issue of a little thing is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness.
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At twenty, men love woman at thirty, a woman and at forty, women.
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Conceit is lovable and unconcealed vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.
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As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of the one.
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A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.
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Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?
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When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.
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But somewhere on the great world the sun is always shining, and, just so sure as you live, it will sometime shine on you.
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May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.
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