Margaret Deland quotes
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“Truth is like heat or light; its vibrations are endless, and are endlessly felt.”
-- Margaret DelandSource : Margaret Deland (2015). “John Ward, Preacher”, p.419, The Floating Press
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“Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.”
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“A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.”
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“As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.”
-- Margaret DelandSource : Margaret Deland (2015). “The Awakening of Helena Richie”, p.154, The Floating Press
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“One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.”
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“conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.”
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“silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?”
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“Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.”
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“we've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business ...”
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“as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.”
-- Margaret DelandSource : Margaret Deland (2010). “Around Old Chester”, p.182, Wildside Press LLC
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“there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.”
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“War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change their minds.”
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“weakness is a great bully without knowing it ...”
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“In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.”
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“it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.”
-- Margaret DelandSource : Margaret Deland (2010). “Around Old Chester”, p.266, Wildside Press LLC
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“I notice that when people have no sense of responsibility, you call them either criminals or geniuses.”
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“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!”
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“we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.”
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“moral vanity is the snare of good people.”
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“What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.”
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“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.”
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“Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.”
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“When one promise jostles another, one of 'em isn't a promise.”
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“nothing may be more selfish than remorse ...”
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“Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.”
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“... in a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a godly soul in a very little sin.”
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“... 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.”
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“... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?”
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“Hearts don't come when Reason whistles to 'em.”
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“Fighting should be left to dogs and cats and chickens, who can't reason.”
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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.”
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“If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.”
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“... 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.”
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“When did Youth ever thank Age for its wisdom?”
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“I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.”
-- Margaret DelandSource : Margaret Deland (2015). “The Awakening of Helena Richie”, p.163, The Floating Press
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“... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.”
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“... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.”
-- Margaret DelandSource : Margaret Deland (1894). “Sidney”
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“Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it!”
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“There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.”
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“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!”
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“... there must be reserves -- except with God. The human soul is solitary. But for confession that is different; justice and reparation sometimes demand it; but, again, justice and courage sometimes forbid it.”
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“I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.”
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“Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain embarrassing heavenly reunions ...”
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“... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!”
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“... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.”
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“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”
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“A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.”
-- Margaret DelandSource : Margaret Deland (2015). “The Iron Woman”, p.239, The Floating Press
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“I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.”
-- Margaret DelandSource : Margaret Deland (1969). “Dr. Lavendar's People”
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“anger as well as love casts out fear ...”
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“The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.”
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“To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.”
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“There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.”
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“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.”
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“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 DelandSource : Margaret Deland (2010). “Around Old Chester”, p.67, Wildside Press LLC
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“the blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light.”
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“Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope.”
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“nothing is as conventional as adolescence.”
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“The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.”
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“There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.”
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“Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.”
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“I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.”
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“Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.”
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“You can't have genius without patience.”
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“A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.”
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“Real divorce takes place without a decree ...”
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“When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.”
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“Nature is perfectly impartial. Brain has no sex!”
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“a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.”
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“men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.”
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“a manufactured interest has no staying quality - especially if it involves any hard work.”
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“a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!”
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“Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.”
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“When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.”
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“The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion ...”
-- Margaret DelandSource : Margaret Deland (1969). “Dr. Lavendar's People”
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“the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.”
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“It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.”
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“faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.”
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“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 DelandSource : Margaret Deland (2010). “Around Old Chester”, p.77, Wildside Press LLC
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“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.”
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“gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.”
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“by some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed ...”
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“Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.”
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“habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness ...”
-- Margaret DelandSource : Margaret Deland (2015). “The Iron Woman”, p.64, The Floating Press
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“Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.”
-- Margaret Deland
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