Myrtle Reed Quotes

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• Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon things they spend all their efforts to hide. Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs.

  Myrtle Reed

  Taken, Men, Effort

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• The only way to win happiness is to give it. The more we give, the more we have.

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  Happiness, Winning, Giving

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.

  Myrtle Reed

  Letters, Want, Chance

  MYRTLE REED (1910). “MASTER OF THE VINEYARD”

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• it always seems to me as if the lavender was a little woman in a green dress, with a lavender bonnet and a white kerchief. She's one of those strong, sweet, wholesome people, who always rest you, and her sweetness lingers long after she goes away.

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  Sweet, Strong, White

  Myrtle Reed (1902). “Lavender and Old Lace”

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• There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.

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  Forgiveness, House, Understanding

  Myrtle Reed (2012). “The Spinster Book”, p.70, tredition

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• Five golden years, Heart of Mine, have we walked the way of life together, and there is not an hour I would have changed; there is no moment when I would have you other than you have been. It is the fashion these days, I know, to say that love ends at the altar, but it is not so. You and I have found the old dream of the world divinely true. It is neither a poet's fancy nor a trick of the imagination, but a thing of fadeless and unending beauty.

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  Dream, Fashion, Heart

  Myrtle Reed (1906). “Later Love Letters of a Musician”

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• It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.

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  Lovers, Married, Disappointed Love

  Myrtle Reed (2012). “The Spinster Book”, p.154, tredition

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• Making an issue of a little thing is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness.

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  Issues, Littles, Way

  Myrtle Reed (2012). “The Spinster Book”, p.117, tredition

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• After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.

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  Heart, Men, Thinking

  Myrtle Reed (2012). “The Spinster Book”, p.69, tredition

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• Silence always gives consent.

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  Giving, Silence, Consent

  Myrtle Reed (1905). “The Master's Violin”

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• I've always thought my flowers had souls.

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  Flower, Garden, Soul

  Myrtle Reed (1902). “Lavender and Old Lace”

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• When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.

  Myrtle Reed

  Giving, Mind, Trouble

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• When a little pleasure has flashed for a moment against the dark, I have made that jewel mine. I have hundreds of them ... I call it my Necklace of Perfect Joy. When the world goes wrong, I have only to close my eyes and remember all the links in my chain, set with gems, some large and some small, but all beautiful with the beauty which never fades. It is all I can take with me when I go. My material possessions must stay behind, but my Necklace of Perfect Joy will bring me happiness to the end, when I put it on, to be nevermore unclasped.

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  Beautiful, Eye, Dark

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• It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately concern us.

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  Wisdom, Acceptance, Lifetime

  Myrtle Reed (1916). “Old Rose and Silver”, p.49, Library of Alexandria

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• When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit of the hill.

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  Age, Needs, Hills

  Myrtle Reed (1916). “Old Rose and Silver”, p.49, Library of Alexandria

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• The things that are ours cannot be given away, or taken away, or lost. We break our hearts, all of us, trying to keep things that do not belong to us — and to which we have no right.

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  Taken, Heart, Trying

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• Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet.

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  Sweet, Memories, Heart

  Myrtle Reed (1906). “Later Love Letters of a Musician”

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• when you can't see straight ahead, it's because you're about to turn a corner.

  Myrtle Reed

  Turns, Corners, Uncertainty

  Myrtle Reed (1916). “Old Rose and Silver”, p.86, Library of Alexandria

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• One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.

  Myrtle Reed

  Differences, People, Interesting

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• May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.

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  Friendship, House, May

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient.

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  Real, Letters, Ridiculous

  Myrtle Reed (2012). “The Spinster Book”, p.90, tredition

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• The heart's seasons seldom coincide with the calendar. Who among us has not been made desolate beyond all words upon some golden day when the little creatures of the air and meadow were life incarnate, from sheer joy of living? Who among us has not come home, singing, when the streets were almost impassable with snow, or met a friend with a happy, smiling face, in the midst of a pouring rain?

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  Rain, Home, Heart

  Myrtle Reed (1909). “Old Rose and Silver”

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• Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.

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  Change, Sweet, Essence

  Myrtle Reed (1911). “Master of the Vineyard”, p.28, Library of Alexandria

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• It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail.

  Myrtle Reed

  Vanity, People, Details

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• each separate flower has a magic all its own.

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  Flower, Magic

  Myrtle Reed (1906). “Later Love Letters of a Musician”

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