When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.
BESS STREETER ALDRICHA 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.
More Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes
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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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It takes a small town to keep you humble.
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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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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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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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It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.
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not all clever words are true. … And inversely most things that are true are not clever.
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Things last so much longer than people.
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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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Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.
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Love is the light that you see by.
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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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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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In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler’s dream.
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