Love is the light that you see by.
BESS STREETER ALDRICHOur 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.
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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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Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.
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The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.
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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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In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler’s dream.
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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.
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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 was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.
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It takes a small town to keep you humble.
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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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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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thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.
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Things last so much longer than people.
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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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