Myrtle Reed Quotes - Page 3

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• The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.

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  Time, Way, Timing

  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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• Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.

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  Lying, Book, Firsts

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

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• I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.

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  Work, Blindness, Inseparable

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

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• I have a friend, physically magnificent, who combines within himself the intellect of a philosopher, the diplomacy of a statesman, the executive ability of the general of an army, the courtesy of a Chesterfield - and the emotions of a rabbit.

  Myrtle Reed

  Army, Personality, Rabbits

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• Marriage is the process by which a woman deprives herself of an escort.

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  Process

  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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• when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.

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  Waiting

  Myrtle Reed (2017). “The Master's Violin”, p.98, Litres

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• Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.

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  Art, Circumstances, Ifs

  Myrtle Reed (2014). “The White Shield”, p.27, GROSSET & DUNLAP Publishers

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• Anger is a better weapon than tears; a burr commands more respect than a sensitive plant.

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  Anger, Tears, Weapons

  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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• Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?

  Myrtle Reed

  Letters, Love Letter, Evidence

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• Nothing in the world was ever built without a dream at the beginning.

  Myrtle Reed

  Dream, World, Built

  Myrtle Reed (1903). “The Shadow of Victory: A Romance of Fort Dearborn”

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• A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.

  Myrtle Reed

  Memories, Good Memories, Forget

  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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• Gossip is the social mosquito.

  Myrtle Reed

  Gossip, Mosquitoes, Social

  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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• I've just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it!

  Myrtle Reed

  Hair, I Can

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• Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.

  Myrtle Reed

  Home, Please

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• Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness; later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.

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  Thinking, Yoke, Way

  Myrtle Reed (1903). “The Shadow of Victory: A Romance of Fort Dearborn”

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• Love and hate always remember; it is only indifference that forgets.

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  Hate, Remember, Indifference

  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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• Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.

  Myrtle Reed

  Love Is, Air, Orchids

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• As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of the one.

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  Magic, Ifs

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

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• If there's anythin' on earth that can be more tryin' than any kind of relative, I don't know what it is, but relatives by marriage comes first - easy.

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  Earth, Firsts, Kind

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• Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.

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  Married, Achieve, Born

  Myrtle Reed (1911). “Master of the Vineyard”, p.115, Library of Alexandria

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• In every life there is a perfect moment, like a flash of sun. We can shape our days by that, if we will - before by faith, and afterward by memory.

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  Memories, Perfect, Live In The Moment

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

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• It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.

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  Trouble, Explaining, Explaining Things

  Myrtle Reed (1916). “Old Rose and Silver”, p.19, Library of Alexandria

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• The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the Summer sun. Barriers may be built across its path, but they bring only power, as the conquering of an obstacle is always sure to do. Sometimes when the rocks and stone-clad hills loom large ahead, and eternity itself would be needed to carve a passage, there is an easy way around. The discovery of it makes the river sing with gladness and turns the murmurous deeps to living water, bright with ripples and foam.

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  Summer, Rivers, Rocks

  Myrtle Reed (2017). “Old Rose and Silver”, p.58, Lindhardt og Ringhof

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• But somewhere on the great world the sun is always shining, and, just so sure as you live, it will sometime shine on you.

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  Shine On, Shining, World

  "The Master's Violin".

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• The spirit in which one earns his daily bread means as much to his soul as the bread itself may mean to his body.

  Myrtle Reed

  Work, Mean, Soul

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

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