Margaret Prescott Montague Quotes

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To transpose the quotation... 'I had slept and dreamed that life was duty,
But waked to find that life was beauty.'

Margaret Prescott Montague

Once out of all the gray days of my life I have looked into the heart of reality; I have witnessed the truth; I have seen life as it really is — ravishingly, ecstatically, madly beautiful, and filled to overflowing with a wild joy, and a value unspeakable.

Margaret Prescott Montague

Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it for some people. The beauties of nature or the exhilaration of artistic creation does it for others. Probably any high experience may momentarily stretch our souls up on tiptoe, so that we catch a glimpse of that marvelous beauty which is always there, but which we are not often tall enough to perceive.

Margaret Prescott Montague

Convalescence is a sort of grown-up rebirth, enabling us to see life with a fresh eye.

Margaret Prescott Montague

Margaret Prescott Montague

Margaret Prescott Montague

Born: November 29, 1878

Died: September 26, 1955 (aged 76)

Bio: Margaret Prescott Montague was an American short story writer, and novelist. Her middle name is sometimes attributed as Preston before changing to Prescott.

Known for:

England to America (1920)
Uncle Sam Of Freedom Ridge (1920)
Home to Him's Muvver (1916)
The Gift (1919)
The Great Expectancy (1917)

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