Candace Wheeler Quotes

• Peace is the wait of the patient soul.

  Candace Wheeler

  Peace, Waiting, Soul

  Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”

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• One of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God.

  Candace Wheeler

  Perfect, Creative, Joy

  Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”

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• perpetuity in a home is a blanket for the cold years that come with age.

  Candace Wheeler

  Home, Years, Age

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• And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.

  Candace Wheeler

  Grief, Loss, Land

  Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”

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• Brown people and black people and red people swarmed through our great halls, until those who were white looked simply faded-out human beings beside them. Indeed, I came to see that white is not a color in skin any more than in textiles, and if it had not quality, it had no value even for humanity. I saw that color in skin had a certain advantage in strength and warmth as a means of beauty.

  Candace Wheeler

  Mean, White, Color

  Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”

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• Blessed be those souls who are glad! They are a salve for sorrow and fatigue. A sun in days of darkness, a joy in sorrow, a ray of heaven shining through the uncertainness of earth.

  Candace Wheeler

  Blessed, Shining, Joy

  Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”

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• If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!

  Candace Wheeler

  Perfection, Childhood, Humanity

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• A great magazine is sort of a net for ability.

  Candace Wheeler

  Magazines, Ability

  Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”

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• Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!

  Candace Wheeler

  Party, Successful, Political

  Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”

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