Ethel M. Dell Quotes

#1. Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.

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#2. People have a way of thinking that everything is finished when the very best of all may yet be in store.

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#3. She made a gesture of impatience. 'Do you never think of the future?'
'Not in your presence,' laughed Nick. 'I think of you - you - and only you. Didn't you know?

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#4. We are all given the ingredients of happiness, but the mixing is left to ourselves.

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#5. I haven't hurt you ... if I have, it's the faithful wound of a friend.

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#6. That's the worst of doctors. They are so keen about the body, but they don't study the soul at all.

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#7. What we once fling away never comes again to us.

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#8. What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new ...

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#9. There was not a tree on the place, only the horrible prickly pear bushes thrusting out their distorted arms as if exulting in their own nakedness.

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#10. Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.

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#11. I love humility in a woman. It's so rare. With man, of course, it is practically extinct.

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#12. There is no such thing as time for those who are happy. For the others - there is nothing else.

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#13. If you didn't sit with your head in the clouds so perpetually you wouldn't get so many shocks.

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#14. Promises were made for people who do not trust each other.

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