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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.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

Things last so much longer than people.
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Lasts Longer People
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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Home Mother Running
It takes a small town to keep you humble.
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Humble Keep Small Towns
Love is the light that you see by.
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Light Love See
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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Feet Mind Voice
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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Love Motherhood Thinking
thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.
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Acrobats Quite Untrustworthy
In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler’s dream.
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Book Dream Rivers
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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Dark Order Thinking
Mrs. Schneiderman’s theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.
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Earth Food Sorrow
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.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Age Emotion Long Tears
For 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.
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Fire Home Shine
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.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Christmas Song Xmas
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.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Equality Labor Men Sight
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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Favors Living Men Way
There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.
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Division Heart Mother