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Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

Phyllis McGinley

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Phyllis McGinley
Age: 72 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 21
Died: 1978
Died: February 22
Author
Poet
Writer
Ontario
Oregon
Phyllis McGinley
Measure
Healing
Awareness
Peace
Certain
Body
Thing

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O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.
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The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness of their dreams, the desperate vitality of their ambitions, that they stand apart from ordinary people of good will.
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Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
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Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations.
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If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion.
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Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.
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Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.
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A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.
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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
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What in me is pure conviction is simple prejudice in you.
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These are my daughters, I suppose. But where in the world did the children vanish?
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Tomorrow will come and today will pass, / But the hearts of the young are brittle as glass.
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Sons do not need you. They are always out of your reach, Walking strange waters.
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How happy is the Optimist / To whom life shows its sunny side / His horse may lose, his ship may list, / But he always sees the funny side.
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I'm a middle-bracket person with a middle-bracket spouse / And we live together gaily in a middle-bracket house. / We've a fair-to-middlin' family we take the middle view / So we're manna sent from heaven to internal revenue.
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Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry.
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Kindness is a virtue neither modern nor urban. One almost unlearns it in a city. Towns have their own beatitude they are not unfriendly they offer a vast and solacing anonymity or an equally vast and solacing gregariousness. But one needs a neighbor on whom to practice compassion.
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To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed.
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