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Mrs. Schneiderman’s theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

Things last so much longer than people.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Lasts Longer People
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
thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.
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Acrobats Quite Untrustworthy
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
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
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.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Believe Boys Couple
The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.
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Antidote Grief World
Love is the light that you see by.
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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
There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.
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Division Heart Mother
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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Achieve Dating Girl
It takes a small town to keep you humble.
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Humble Keep Small Towns
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
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.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Equality Labor Men Sight
Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.
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Heart Lying Writing
When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Irony Mean Youth