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The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.

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Myrtle Reed
Age: 36 †
Born: 1874
Born: September 27
Died: 1911
Died: August 17
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Olive Green
Myrtle Reed MacCollough
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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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Pedestals are always lonely.
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One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.
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Conceit is lovable and unconcealed vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.
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A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.
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marriage is a great strain upon love.
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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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The spirit in which one earns his daily bread means as much to his soul as the bread itself may mean to his body.
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It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail.
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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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Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.
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If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
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it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.
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when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.
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