Daisy Bates quotes

“Surely the world we live in is but the world that lives in us.”
-- Daisy Bates

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“No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.”
-- Daisy Bates

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“From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.”
-- Daisy Bates

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“American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.”

“My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.”

Source : Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.90, UPNE

“O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, Completing him not otherwise complete! How void and useless the sad remnant left Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.79

“But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.”

“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”

“The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.”

“Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.”

“And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.”

“First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.”

“I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.”