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To everything there is an end — except fear.
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Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!
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Her religion was that of all artists — obedience to the laws of her creative art.
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It is you men who make war!... We, who have children, would never make it! Why should a woman be broken up in pain, to give her child life, only to see him carried away from her, to make food for guns?
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A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.
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We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.
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About generosity Freya did not think at all — for those who practice it never weigh it.
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Nothing ever really sets human nature free, but self-control.
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That's the worst of devotion — its trade-mark is anxiety.
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I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?'
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Pride had made Prue grow stubbornly silent, more silent than Ted wanted; and because women must lead up to love-making by conversation, bexause kisses only seem natural to them after tender words, Prue had grow extremely cold to Ted.
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Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.
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Her beauty made her silences as important as speech and much less troublesome.
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It is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.
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You've been brought up to be nice — and that's a dangerous profession.
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Not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!
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Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.
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Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline — and above all his interest in others — these together make up the spirit of morale.
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To Hans failure had no more moral significance than success.
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Phyllis Bottome
Born:
May 31, 1884
Died:
August 22, 1963
(aged 79)
Bio:
Phyllis Forbes Dennis was a British novelist and short story writer who wrote under her birth name, Phyllis Bottome.
Known for:
The Mortal Storm (1937)
Danger Signal (1939)
The Dark Tower (1916)
Old Wine (1925)
The Second Fiddle (1917)
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