Margaret Deland Quotes

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• Truth is like heat or light; its vibrations are endless, and are endlessly felt.

  Margaret Deland

  Inspirational, Light, Vibrations

  Margaret Deland (2015). “John Ward, Preacher”, p.419, The Floating Press

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• As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.

  Margaret Deland

  Inspiration, Feels

  Margaret Deland (2015). “The Awakening of Helena Richie”, p.154, The Floating Press

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• Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.

  Margaret Deland

  Army, Looks, Arrogant

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• Twenty-five years ago, Christmas was not the burden that it is now; there was less haggling and weighing, less quid pro quo, less fatigue of body, less weariness of soul; and, most of all, there was less loading up with trash.

  Margaret Deland

  Christmas, Years, Soul

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• One must desire something to be alive.

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  Dream, Desire, Alive

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• Weakness is a great bully without knowing it.

  Margaret Deland

  Knowing, Bully, Weakness

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• A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

  Margaret Deland

  Mind, Letters, Reader

  Margaret Deland (2015). “The Iron Woman”, p.239, The Floating Press

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• Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

  Margaret Deland

  Spiritual, Sacrifice, Self

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• Anger as well as love casts out fear.

  Margaret Deland

  Anger, Casts, Wells

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• Nothing may be more selfish than remorse.

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  Regret, Selfish, May

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• it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.

  Margaret Deland

  Crazy, Unhappy, Sanity

  Margaret Deland (2010). “Around Old Chester”, p.266, Wildside Press LLC

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• One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

  Margaret Deland

  Names, Desire, Alive

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• as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.

  Margaret Deland

  Manners, Incompatibility, Truthfulness

  Margaret Deland (2010). “Around Old Chester”, p.182, Wildside Press LLC

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• You can't have genius without patience.

  Margaret Deland

  Genius, Difficult, Difficult Days

  Margaret Deland (2015). “The Awakening of Helena Richie”, p.11, The Floating Press

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• A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

  Margaret Deland

  Inspirational, Ability, Expected

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• If you give way to fear, you'll be a coward; and ... a coward is apt to be a liar. The devil's first name is Fear.

  Margaret Deland

  Fear, Liars, Names

  Margaret Deland (2010). “Around Old Chester”, p.77, Wildside Press LLC

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• We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.

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  Lonely, Temptation, Devil

  Margaret Deland (1969). “Dr. Lavendar's People”

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• Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness.

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  Doe, Habit, Reconcile

  Margaret Deland (2015). “The Iron Woman”, p.64, The Floating Press

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• I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.

  Margaret Deland

  Two, Habit, Critters

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• there are few things that are more endearing than the grace of listening with attention; indeed, it is more than endearing, it is impressive - for no one knows what wisdom lies concealed in silence!

  Margaret Deland

  Lying, Silence, Grace

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• conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.

  Margaret Deland

  Horse, Devil, Conceit

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• Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its virtues!

  Margaret Deland

  Spiritual, Believe, Mind

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• the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!

  Margaret Deland

  Ministry, Clergy, Matrimony

  Margaret Deland (2010). “Around Old Chester”, p.67, Wildside Press LLC

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• There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.

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  Listening, Fool, Embarrassment

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• ... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.

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  Arrogant, Conviction, Conceit

  Margaret Deland (1894). “Sidney”

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