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I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.

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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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The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.
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In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.
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One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.
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She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.
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Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.
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The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.
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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.
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Sometimes, I ventured, it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty. . . I couldn't stand it if you boys were inconsiderate, or thought of her as if she were just somebody who looked after you. You see I was very much in love with your mother once, and I know there's nobody like her.
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All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.
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The prayers of all good people are good.
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