Myrtle Reed - The master's violin (1904)

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Forgiving all things, dreaming all things, hoping all things with the boundless faith of maternity, she loved him, through the child that he was, for the man that he might be — loved him, through the man that he was, for the child that he had been.

Myrtle Reed

When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.

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

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

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