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when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.

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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Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.
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How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!
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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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Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.
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If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us.
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Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.
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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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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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Revolution is obstructed evolution.
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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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marriage is a great strain upon love.
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May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.
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When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.
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... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.
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Conceit is lovable and unconcealed vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.
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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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