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thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

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.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Dream Garden Mind
thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Acrobats Quite Untrustworthy
Love is the light that you see by.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Light Love See
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.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Fire Home Shine
It takes a small town to keep you humble.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Humble Keep Small Towns
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.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Christmas Song Xmas
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.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Favors Living Men Way
Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Heart Lying Writing
Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.
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Home Sometimes Wanted
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
Things last so much longer than people.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Lasts Longer People
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.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Hand Love Sorrow Woman
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.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Feet Mind Voice
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.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Dark Order Thinking
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
The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Antidote Grief World