It takes a small town to keep you humble.
BESS STREETER ALDRICHChristmas 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.
More Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes
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Things last so much longer than people.
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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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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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thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.
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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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not all clever words are true. … And inversely most things that are true are not clever.
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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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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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In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler’s dream.
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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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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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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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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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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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