Myrtle Reed Quotes

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

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

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

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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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There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness — that of understanding.

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

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Not infrequently, when a man asks a woman to marry him, he means that he wants her to help him love himself, and if, blinded by her own feeling, she takes him for her captain, her pleasure craft becomes a pirate ship, the colours change to a black flag with a sinister sign, and her inevitable destiny is the coral reef.

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

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

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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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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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Nothing is bad which does not harm either you or someone else.

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A man likes to feel that he is loved, a woman likes to be told.

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Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.

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

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

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

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

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

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A man would need to be a mental kangaroo in order to keep up with her.

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There is always one way to make anybody do anything — the trouble is to find it.

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