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Prayers said by good people are always good prayers

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Willa Cather
Age: 73 †
Born: 1873
Born: December 7
Died: 1947
Died: April 24
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Willa Sibert Cather
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Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen and raised in a sty, he would still find plenty of inspiration for his work. The only need is the eye to see.
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One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.
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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
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Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.
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Where there is great love there are always miracles.
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More than him has done that, said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.
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This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.
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Alexandra sighed. I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it.
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When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.
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It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
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Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton.
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Happy people do a great deal for their friends.
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The end is nothing the road is all.
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life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.
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They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.
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The land belongs to the future.
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There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back.
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