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It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

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Phyllis Bottome
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 31
Died: 1963
Died: August 22
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Phyllis Forbes Dennis
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There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
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A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.
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All persecution is a sign of fear for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.
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if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.
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Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.
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Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
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artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.
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Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
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