Myrtle Reed Quotes & Sayings

#1. Silence always gives consent ...

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#2. Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.

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#3. When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.

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#4. It is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.

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#5. Marriage is a great strain upon love.

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#6. I've always thought my flowers had souls.

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#7. When one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.

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#8. In every life there is a perfect moment, like a flash of sun. We can shape our days by that, if we will - before by faith, and afterward by memory.

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#9. I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.

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#10. The world has been fair cruel if you've never known the love of a dog!

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#11. Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.

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#12. When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.

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#13. No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.

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#14. A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.

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#15. Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.

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#16. Money may not be your best friend, but it's the quickest to act, and seems to be favorably recognized in more places than most friends are.

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#17. Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.

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#18. One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.

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#19. A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.

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#20. Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance ...

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#21. I've just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it!

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#22. The things that are ours cannot be given away, or taken away, or lost. We break our hearts, all of us, trying to keep things that do not belong to us - and to which we have no right.

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#23. It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately concern us.

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#24. As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of the one.

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#25. After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.

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#26. The only way to win happiness is to give it. The more we give, the more we have.

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#27. A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.

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#28. There is always one way to make anybody do anything - the trouble is to find it.

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#29. Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.

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#30. There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.

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#31. [On marriage:] Someone once said that it was like a crowded church - those outside were endeavouring to get in, and those inside were making violent efforts to get out.

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#32. Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.

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#33. Marriage is the process by which a woman deprives herself of an escort.

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#34. Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.

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#35. A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient.

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#36. Anger is a better weapon than tears; a burr commands more respect than a sensitive plant.

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#37. Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness; later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.

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#38. The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.

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#39. It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.

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#40. The song of the world is all of love.

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#41. Pedestals are always lonely.

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#42. When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.

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#43. Sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.

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#44. It always seems to me as if the lavender was a little woman in a green dress, with a lavender bonnet and a white kerchief. She's one of those strong, sweet, wholesome people, who always rest you, and her sweetness lingers long after she goes away.

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#45. Revolution is obstructed evolution.

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#46. Each separate flower has a magic all its own.

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#47. Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

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#48. One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.

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#49. Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.

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#50. Making an issue of a little thing is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness.

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#51. For the size of it, a check book is about the greatest convenience I know of.

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#52. Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet.

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#53. There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.

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#54. If there's anythin' on earth that can be more tryin' than any kind of relative, I don't know what it is, but relatives by marriage comes first - easy.

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#55. Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.

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#56. At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women.

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#57. May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.

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#58. Gossip is the social mosquito.

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#59. It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.

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#60. The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

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#61. Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?

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#62. Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

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#63. A bird is joy incarnate.

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#64. On that first day when we look back, either happily or with remorse, to the stony ways over which we have traveled, losing concern for that part of the journey which is yet to come, we have grown old.

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#65. I have a friend, physically magnificent, who combines within himself the intellect of a philosopher, the diplomacy of a statesman, the executive ability of the general of an army, the courtesy of a Chesterfield - and the emotions of a rabbit.

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#66. I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.

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#67. If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

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#68. No matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.

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#69. The spirit in which one earns his daily bread means as much to his soul as the bread itself may mean to his body.

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#70. Marriage is the cold potato of love.

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#71. Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.

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#72. Nothing in the world was ever built without a dream at the beginning.

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#73. When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit of the hill.

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#74. There isn't a new sorrow in the world
they're all old ones
but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.

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#75. Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

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#76. When you can't see straight ahead, it's because you're about to turn a corner.

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#77. How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!

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#78. Womankind suffers from three delusions: marriage will reform a man, a rejected lover is heartbroken for life, and if the other women were only out of the way, he would come back.

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#79. There is a great deal of trouble in this world which is not caused by people keeping their mouths shut.

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#80. All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.

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#81. The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.

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#82. Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.

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#83. If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us.

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