Things last so much longer than people.
BESS STREETER ALDRICHFor though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver, the bright, steady glow of its fire still shines on the hearth-stones of countless homes.
More Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes
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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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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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There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.
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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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Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.
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Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys ought to be hung. Others, less irritable, think that gently chloroforming them would seem more humane.
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thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.
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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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Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.
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Love is the light that you see by.
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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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not all clever words are true. … And inversely most things that are true are not clever.
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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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The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.
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