Margaret Deland Quotes

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One must desire something, to be alive: perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

Margaret Deland
A pint can't hold a quart. If it holds a pint, it is doing all that can be expected of it.

Margaret Deland
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense isn't virtue; it's spiritual dissipation!

Margaret Deland
Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

Margaret Deland
There couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.

Margaret Deland
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 Deland
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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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.

Margaret Deland
Love never forgets; or if it does, it is an imperfect love, like the beautiful love of a dog, faithful and unreasoning.

Margaret Deland
The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.

Margaret Deland
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.

Margaret Deland
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!

Margaret Deland
Truth is like heat or light; its vibrations are endless, and are endlessly felt.

Margaret Deland
His truthfulness, which ignored the courteous deceits of social life, was a kind of impropriety.

Margaret Deland
Silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?

Margaret Deland
She talked continually — and talking almost always smothers thinking.

Margaret Deland
He had been up until three with an old woman who thought she was sick, and he had been routed out of bed again at five because she told her family that she was going to die. William King was not given to sarcasm, but he longed to say to the waiting relatives, 'There is no hope! — she'll live.'

Margaret Deland
There was hardly a wrinkle on her placid face. Dr. Lavendar had been heard to say, in this connection, that 'thought made wrinkles.' And the inference was obvious.

Margaret Deland
Some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.

Margaret Deland
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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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.

Margaret Deland
War is wicked, because it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change their minds.

Margaret Deland
I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.

Margaret Deland
[The remark] shocked poor Ellen into the realization that when children go wrong, everybody (except their parents) knows that it is their parents' fault.

Margaret Deland
It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

Margaret Deland