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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.
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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There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
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... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
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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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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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Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
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the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
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A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.
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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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There is no thermometer for wants!
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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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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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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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