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Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.

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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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On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.
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The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)
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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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Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.
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Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more.
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From two ears that had grown side by side, the grains of one shot up joyfully into the light, projecting themselves into the future, and the grains from the other lay still in the earth and rotted and nobody knew why.
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When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.
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The end is nothing the road is all.
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Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like the mice in their own kitchens to make no noise, to leave no trace, to slip over the surface of things in the dark.
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A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.
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Happy people do a great deal for their friends.
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Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.
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That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.
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Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.
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One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.
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Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
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Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.
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The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.
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Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.
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Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.
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