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In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler’s dream.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler’s dream.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Book Dream Rivers
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
The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.
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Antidote Grief World
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
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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Age Emotion Long Tears
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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Fire Home Shine
Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.
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Home Sometimes Wanted
It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.
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Bigs Little Things
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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Dark Order Thinking
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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Feet Mind Voice
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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Couple Dispose Great Incarceration
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
Mrs. Schneiderman’s theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.
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Earth Food Sorrow
not all clever words are true. … And inversely most things that are true are not clever.
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Clever Cleverness Inversely
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
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