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What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?
Phyllis Bottome
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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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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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A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories!
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Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.
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That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.
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Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!
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Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
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Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline -- and above all his interest in others -- these together make up the spirit of morale.
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Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
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The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.
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it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.
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She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.
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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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A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.
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I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts!
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Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.
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it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.
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