Margaret Landon Quotes

#1. She was a woman, slight, almost frail in appearance; not someone who could fight with guns to free the slaves, as in the United States, but someone who could fight with knowledge in the corner of the world where she found herself.

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#2. Shall I say of you that you worship the image of your God that you have in your mind, but not your God?

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#3. To give an answer in advance of a question was futile, and to propound a question in order to supply the answer was also futile. There were difficulties that could best be met by unawareness of their existence.

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#4. Change from despair to joy he made her extremely beautiful.

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#5. Perhaps, she had dreamed, she would teach some future King, shaping his child mind for a new and better world.

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#6. The nonchalance irritated her more because it was not assumed.

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#7. He searched for words to poison the shaft of his disdain.

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#8. If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?

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#9. That roads are for journeys, ma'am, not destinations

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#10. Was she insane?! She would lose her head before she was 20!

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#11. The chains had fallen from her leg, but not from her mind.

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#12. I gaze upon the thousand stars
That fill the midnight sky;
And wish, so passionately wish,
A light like theirs on high.
I have such eagerness of hope
To benefit my kind;
I feel as if immortal power
Were given to my mind.

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#13. Most people do not see the world as it is. They see it as they are

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#14. She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort.

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#15. When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening.

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#16. She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.

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