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Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

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
Mrs. Schneiderman’s theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.
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Earth Food Sorrow
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
You wouldn’t think that sorrow could be a light, would you, dearie? But it can. And then after that, service lights it. Yes. . . . I think that is what love is to a woman . . . a lantern in her hand.
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Hand Love Sorrow Woman
The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.
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Antidote Grief World
Things last so much longer than people.
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Lasts Longer People
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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Irony Mean Youth
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
It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.
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Bigs Little Things
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
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
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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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
not all clever words are true. … And inversely most things that are true are not clever.
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Clever Cleverness Inversely
In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler’s dream.
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