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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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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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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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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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Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
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What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?
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Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
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death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.
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A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.
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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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A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.
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To be in the right is often an expensive business.
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the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
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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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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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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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Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
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I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?
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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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Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
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People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
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