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Truth is like heat or light; its vibrations are endless, and are endlessly felt.
Margaret Deland
2.
Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.
Margaret Deland
3.
As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.
Margaret Deland
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One must desire something to be alive.
Margaret Deland
5.
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
Margaret Deland
6.
Twenty-five years ago, Christmas was not the burden that it is now; there was less haggling and weighing, less quid pro quo, less fatigue of body, less weariness of soul; and, most of all, there was less loading up with trash.
Margaret Deland
7.
One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
Margaret Deland
8.
I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.
Margaret Deland
9.
A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
Margaret Deland
10.
Nothing may be more selfish than remorse.
Margaret Deland
11.
A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.
Margaret Deland
12.
Convictions do not imply reasons.
Margaret Deland
13.
I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.
Margaret Deland
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You can't have genius without patience.
Margaret Deland
15.
We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.
Margaret Deland
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moral vanity is the snare of good people.
Margaret Deland
17.
Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.
Margaret Deland
18.
Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
Margaret Deland
19.
men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
Margaret Deland
20.
it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.
Margaret Deland
21.
a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!
Margaret Deland
22.
A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.
Margaret Deland
23.
There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.
Margaret Deland
24.
Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.
Margaret Deland
25.
Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness.
Margaret Deland
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I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.
Margaret Deland
27.
as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.
Margaret Deland
28.
there are few things that are more endearing than the grace of listening with attention; indeed, it is more than endearing, it is impressive - for no one knows what wisdom lies concealed in silence!
Margaret Deland
29.
Weakness is a great bully without knowing it.
Margaret Deland
30.
the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!
Margaret Deland
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conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.
Margaret Deland
32.
Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its virtues!
Margaret Deland
33.
If you give way to fear, you'll be a coward; and ... a coward is apt to be a liar. The devil's first name is Fear.
Margaret Deland
34.
Anger as well as love casts out fear.
Margaret Deland
35.
There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it.
Margaret Deland
36.
In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.
Margaret Deland
37.
I notice that when people have no sense of responsibility, you call them either criminals or geniuses.
Margaret Deland
38.
Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.
Margaret Deland
39.
Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament
Margaret Deland
40.
When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.
Margaret Deland
41.
Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.
Margaret Deland
42.
a manufactured interest has no staying quality - especially if it involves any hard work.
Margaret Deland
43.
Home is the best place to be sick in.
Margaret Deland
44.
There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.
Margaret Deland
45.
as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.
Margaret Deland
46.
... it is curious how fatal it is, either to a situation or to an individual, or even to a name, if in an evil moment it becomes funny.
Margaret Deland
47.
... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.
Margaret Deland
48.
... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.
Margaret Deland
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there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.
Margaret Deland
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... Love never forgets; or if it does, it is an imperfect love, like the beautiful love of a dog, faithful and unreasoning.
Margaret Deland
