Ethel M. Dell Quotes

• we are all given the ingredients of happiness, but the mixing is left to ourselves.

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  Happiness, Mixing, Ingredients

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• Promises were made for people who do not trust each other.

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  People, Promise, Made

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• What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new.

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  Old Things, Political, Needs

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• There is no such thing as time for those who are happy. For the others - there is nothing else.

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  Time

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• Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.

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  Wheels, Speed, Enough

  Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell (2012). “The Keeper of the Door”, p.73, tredition

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• I love humility in a woman. It's so rare. With man, of course, it is practically extinct.

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  Humility, Men, Courses

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• People have a way of thinking that everything is finished when the very best of all may yet be in store.

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  Thinking, People, May

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• Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.

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  Grief, Doors, Closing

  Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell (2012). “The Keeper of the Door”, p.302, tredition

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• If you didn't sit with your head in the clouds so perpetually you wouldn't get so many shocks.

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  Clouds, Unawareness, Shock

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• I haven't hurt you ... if I have, it's the faithful wound of a friend.

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  Friendship, Hurt, Faithful

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• What we once fling away never comes again to us.

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  Rejection, Fling

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• That's the worst of doctors. They are so keen about the body, but they don't study the soul at all.

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  Doctors, Soul, Body

  Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell (2012). “The Keeper of the Door”, p.296, tredition

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• there was not a tree on the place, only the horrible prickly pear bushes thrusting out their distorted arms as if exulting in their own nakedness.

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  Tree, Arms, Pears

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