It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.
BESS STREETER ALDRICHIt takes a small town to keep you humble.
More Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes
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not all clever words are true. … And inversely most things that are true are not clever.
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In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler’s dream.
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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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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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Things last so much longer than people.
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Love is the light that you see by.
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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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Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.
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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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It takes a small town to keep you humble.
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thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.
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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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Mrs. Schneiderman’s theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.
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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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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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