Rachel Field Quotes

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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

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There was no reality to pain when it left one, Though while it held one fast all other realities faded.

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I've seen public opinion shift like a wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

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Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

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The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.

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No hardy perennial has the enduring quality of hope. Cut it to the roots, stamp it underfoot, let frost and fire work their will, and still some valiant shoot will push, to grow again on such scanty fare as it can find. Only time and the cruel quicklime of fact can destroy that stubborn urgency.

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No matter how hard and faithfully we may try we can never compensate another for some lack in his or her life.

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Something told the wild geese
It was time to go.
Though the fields lay golden
Something whispered, — 'Snow.'
...
Something told the wild geese
It was time to fly, —
Summer sun was on their wings,
Winter in their cry.

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Isn't it strange some people make
You feel so tired inside,
Your thoughts begin to shrivel up
Likes leaves all brown and dried?
But when you're with some other ones,
It's stranger still to find
Your thoughts as thick as fireflies
All shiny in your mind!

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When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.

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It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.

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A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight.

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You know the public is more easily swayed by persons than by principles.

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And scandal has a way of catching up with those who disregard its power.

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If once you have slept on an island
You'll never be quite the same.

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