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.
BESS STREETER ALDRICHWhen I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.
More Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes
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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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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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Mrs. Schneiderman’s theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.
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In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler’s dream.
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Things last so much longer than people.
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Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.
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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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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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not all clever words are true. … And inversely most things that are true are not clever.
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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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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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It takes a small town to keep you humble.
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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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There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.
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Love is the light that you see by.
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