Love is the light that you see by.
BESS STREETER ALDRICHMrs. Schneiderman’s theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.
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thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.
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It takes a small town to keep you humble.
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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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There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.
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They are the most painful tears in the world … the tears of the aged … for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.
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You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try and make it like the ideal. If you want a garden,-why, I guess you’ve got to dream a garden.
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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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Things last so much longer than people.
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In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler’s dream.
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I think that love is more like a light that you carry. At first childish happiness keeps it lighted and after that romance. Then motherhood lights it and then duty . . . and maybe after that sorrow.
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not all clever words are true. … And inversely most things that are true are not clever.
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The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.
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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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Katherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior’s] speech. Not an insignificant “have went” nor an infinitesimal
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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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