Myrtle Reed Quotes - Page 4

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

  Myrtle Reed

  Magic, Ifs

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

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• it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.

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  People, House, Guests

  Myrtle Reed (1904). “The Book of Clever Beasts: Studies in Unnatural History”

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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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• [On marriage:] Someone once said that it was like a crowded church - those outside were endeavouring to get in, and those inside were making violent efforts to get out.

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  Effort, Church, Violent

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

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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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• I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.

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  Moving, Discomfort, Stills

  Myrtle Reed (1904). “The Book of Clever Beasts: Studies in Unnatural History”

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• When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.

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  Children, Believe, Names

  Myrtle Reed (1916). “Old Rose and Silver”, p.24, Library of Alexandria

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• For the size of it, a check book is about the greatest convenience I know of.

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  Book, Size, Checks

  Myrtle Reed (1911). “Master of the Vineyard”, p.99, Library of Alexandria

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• The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.

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  Dust, Imagination, Soul

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• Revolution is obstructed evolution.

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  Revolution, Evolution

  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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• Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.

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  Sadness, Sovereign, Remedy

  Myrtle Reed (1911). “Master of the Vineyard”, p.21, Library of Alexandria

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• Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.

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  Omission, Sin, Productive

  Myrtle Reed (2012). “The Spinster Book”, p.91, tredition

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• Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.

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  Matter, Circumstances, Temperament

  Myrtle Reed (1902). “The Spinster Book”, p.96, Library of Alexandria

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• Nothing is bad which does not harm either you or someone else.

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  Doe, Harm, Wrongdoing

  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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• ... the song of the world is all of love.

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  Song, World

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

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• ... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.

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  Years, Bitterness, Sometimes

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

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• There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.

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  Sorrow, Looks, World

  Myrtle Reed (2017). “Lavender and Old Lace”, p.45, Lindhardt og Ringhof

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• ... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.

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  Heart, Matter, Ache

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

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• Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

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  Men, Sea, White

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• When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.

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  Spiritual, Hurt, Way

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

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  Work, Mean, Soul

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

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