Katherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior’s] speech. Not an insignificant “have went” nor an infinitesimal
BESS STREETER ALDRICHIt was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.
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thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.
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Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.
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You wouldn’t think that sorrow could be a light, would you, dearie? But it can. And then after that, service lights it. Yes. . . . I think that is what love is to a woman . . . a lantern in her hand.
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A great many good-natured folks contend that incarceration for a couple of years would prove the best way to dispose of them.
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not all clever words are true. … And inversely most things that are true are not clever.
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Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain’t. So the results of man’s labor will never be equal.
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Biggest affirmative argument I know in favor of ‘If a man die, shall he live again?’ is just the way you feel inside you that nothin’ can stop you from livin’ on.
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Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart…filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.
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When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.
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Love is the light that you see by.
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It takes a small town to keep you humble.
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A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to the voices of the universe.
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It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.
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The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.
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Except for our higher order of minds we are like the little moles under the earth carrying out blindly the work of digging, thinking our own dark passage-ways constitute all there is to the world.
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