the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life’s sorrows.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLthe human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life’s sorrows.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLA man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLDogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLA country-bred man can always learn to get on with city people, but a town-bred fellah never gets the real hang of the country.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLSpring, summer, autumn, or winter. I wish I had failed as little in other ways.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLThere is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLWhen the desire ain’t on me I don’t need help. When it is on me I don’t want any. See? Like the old fellah that never mended his roof. Said on a wet day he couldn’t do it and on a dry day it was as good as anybody’s.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLYou can put city polish on a man, but by golly, it seems you can’t ever rub it off him.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLHave you ever heard apple wood talking? It’s the most loquacious of all. You really can’t get a word in edgeways.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLBurning logs can carry on quite a conversation!
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLThe idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLDo you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLI think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can’t get away from them.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLSunday-evening tea before the fire! I have never missed one moment of beauty, not even taken it for granted.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLLearn to drink the cup of life as it comes.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLThere is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends.
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