Candace Wheeler quotes
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“Blessed be those souls who are glad! They are a salve for sorrow and fatigue. A sun in days of darkness, a joy in sorrow, a ray of heaven shining through the uncertainness of earth.”
-- Candace WheelerSource : Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”
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“If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!”
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“one of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God ...”
-- Candace WheelerSource : Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”
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“And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.”
-- Candace WheelerSource : Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”
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“perpetuity in a home is a blanket for the cold years that come with age.”
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“Brown people and black people and red people swarmed through our great halls, until those who were white looked simply faded-out human beings beside them. Indeed, I came to see that white is not a color in skin any more than in textiles, and if it had not quality, it had no value even for humanity. I saw that color in skin had a certain advantage in strength and warmth as a means of beauty.”
-- Candace WheelerSource : Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”
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“A great magazine is sort of a net for ability ...”
-- Candace WheelerSource : Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”
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“Peace is the wait of the patient soul.”
-- Candace WheelerSource : Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”
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“Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!”
-- Candace WheelerSource : Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”
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“Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.”
Source : Thomas Chalmers (1848). “Select Works of Thomas Chalmers ...: Comprising His Miscellanies; Lectures on Romans; Astronomical, Commercial and Congregational Discourses”, p.153
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“We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston. We feel that we are highly blessed.”
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Source : A Shropshire Lad no. 40, l. 5 (1896)
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“If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.”
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