Lizette Woodworth Reese quotes
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“The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly Truth comes by and puts them out.”
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“Glad that I live am I; That the sky is blue; Glad for the country lanes, And the fall of dew.”
-- Lizette Woodworth ReeseSource : Lizette Woodworth Reese, “A Little Song Of Life”
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“I wonder at the idleness of tears.”
-- Lizette Woodworth ReeseSource : Lizette Woodworth Reese (1928). “Lizette Woodworth Reese ...”
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“None of us ever escape the first few years of our lives. They make a mould into which we are cast, and though it may be broken, and we turned loose, some remnant of it, some intangible evil or lovely thing or both, will remain with us, like the odor to a flower, or the smoothness to a piece of ivory. It is part of the immortality of youth.”
-- Lizette Woodworth ReeseSource : Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days”
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“A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first.”
-- Lizette Woodworth ReeseSource : Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian village: reminiscences of other days”
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“For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.”
-- Lizette Woodworth ReeseSource : Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days”
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“To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.”
-- Lizette Woodworth ReeseSource : Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian village: reminiscences of other days”
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“The sun pours out like wine.”
-- Lizette Woodworth ReeseSource : Lizette Woodworth Reese, Robert John Jones (1992). “In praise of common things: Lizette Woodworth Reese revisited”, Greenwood Pub Group
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“Thrice blessed are they whose early years are spent in some countryside. The flowering and withering of the seasons, and every exquisite sound and sight - every lane, and pasture, and green corners and gnarled hollows everywhere, make them affluent with a treasure which neither change nor chance can steal away.”
-- Lizette Woodworth ReeseSource : Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days”
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Source : Susan Dunlap (2012). “The Bohemian Connection”, p.7, Open Road Media
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Source : Abbi Glines, Colleen Hoover, Jamie McGuire (2013). “The Atria Indie Lovers Collection: Twisted Perfection, Losing Hope, and Red Hill”, p.205, Simon and Schuster
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“It's okay to doubt yourself, it's okay to feel down; just never give up.”
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“Pray and doubt; you’ll do without. Pray and believe; you will receive.”
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“Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.”
Source : A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books
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“Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.”
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