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... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.

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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Chicago
Illinois
Olive Green
Myrtle Reed MacCollough
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Bitterness
Forgiveness
Sometimes
Years

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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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Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.
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Silence always gives consent.
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Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.
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Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.
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Revolution is obstructed evolution.
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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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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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The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
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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 possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.
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Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.
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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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A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.
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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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A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.
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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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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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Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.
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Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.
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