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.
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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. 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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When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.
“When I was young I had no means or time, and … Read More
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.
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In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler’s dream.
“In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in … Read More
Katherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior’s] speech. Not an insignificant “have went” nor an infinitesimal “I seen” ever escaped the keen ears of his eldest sister, who immediately corrected him. Mother sometimes thought Katherine a little severe when, in the interest of proper speaking, she would stop him in the midst of an exciting account of a home-run. There were times, thought Mother, when the spirit of the thing was so much more important than the flesh in which it was clothed.
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The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.
“The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and … Read More
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.
“Except for our higher order of minds we are like the … Read More
Mrs. Schneiderman’s theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.
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thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.
“thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.” Bess Streeter … Read More
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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Things last so much longer than people.
“Things last so much longer than people.” Bess Streeter Aldrich
Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.
“Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.” Bess … Read More
Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.
“Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the … Read More
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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It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.
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I think that love is more like a light that you carry. At first childish happiness keeps it lighted and after that romance. Then motherhood lights it and then duty . . . and maybe after that sorrow. 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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Love is the light that you see by.
“Love is the light that you see by.” Bess Streeter … Read More
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.
“Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about … Read More