Margaret Deland Quotes - Page 2

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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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• 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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• Anger as well as love casts out fear.

  Margaret Deland

  Anger, Casts, Wells

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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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• If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.

  Margaret Deland

  Hate, Enemy, Kind

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• War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change their minds.

  Margaret Deland

  Hate, War, People

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

  Margaret Deland

  Arrogant, Conviction, Conceit

  Margaret Deland (1894). “Sidney”

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

  Margaret Deland

  Lonely, Temptation, Devil

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

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• There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it.

  Margaret Deland

  Mother, Children, Hate

  Margaret Deland (2015). “The Iron Woman”, p.370, The Floating Press

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• there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.

  Margaret Deland

  War, Lying

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• Fighting should be left to dogs and cats and chickens, who can't reason.

  Margaret Deland

  Dog, Cat, Fighting

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• When one promise jostles another, one of 'em isn't a promise.

  Margaret Deland

  Promise, Ems

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• a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.

  Margaret Deland

  Hero, Greatness, People

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• The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.

  Margaret Deland

  Time, Blow, Enemy

  Margaret Deland (1894). “Sidney”

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• Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.

  Margaret Deland

  Grandmother, Men, Vices

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• we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.

  Margaret Deland

  Responsibility, Loss, Anxiety

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• Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope.

  Margaret Deland

  Years, Humanity, Age

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• When did Youth ever thank Age for its wisdom?

  Margaret Deland

  Age, Youth

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• as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.

  Margaret Deland

  Evil, Goodness, Badness

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

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• When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.

  Margaret Deland

  Two, Ems, Duty

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• There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.

  Margaret Deland

  People, Arrogance, Doubt

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• ... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

  Margaret Deland

  Liars, Men, White

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• ... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!

  Margaret Deland

  Safety, Aprons, Strings

  Margaret Deland (2015). “The Awakening of Helena Richie”, p.164, The Floating Press

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• I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.

  Margaret Deland

  Law, Poor Eyesight, Ought

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

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• Hearts don't come when Reason whistles to 'em.

  Margaret Deland

  Heart, Ems, Reason

  Margaret Deland (2017). “An Old Chester Secret”, p.65, Litres

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