Myrtle Reed Quotes

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I've thought lots of times that if we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

Myrtle Reed
Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want. It isn't charity to give away things you want to get rid of and it isn't a sacrifice to do things you don't mind doing.

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Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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Like a leaf of lavender in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet.

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

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Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.

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

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Love and hate always remember; it is only indifference that forgets.

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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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The heart's seasons seldom coincide with the calendar. Who among us has not been made desolate beyond all words upon some golden day when the little creatures of the air and meadow were life incarnate, from sheer joy of living? Who among us has not come home, singing, when the streets were almost impassable with snow, or met a friend with a happy, smiling face, in the midst of a pouring rain?

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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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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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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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The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.

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