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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
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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To be in the right is often an expensive business.
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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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Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
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Truth is its own defense.
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hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.
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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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It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
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... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!
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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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Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
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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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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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There is no thermometer for wants!
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Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.
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Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
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When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
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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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There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
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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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Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.
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