Margaret Deland Quotes - Page 3

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• Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.

  Margaret Deland

  Sorry, Heavy Things, World

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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.

  Margaret Deland

  Listening, Fool, Embarrassment

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• Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.

  Margaret Deland

  Truth Is, Heresy, Shocking

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• It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

  Margaret Deland

  Teaching, Genius, Useless

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

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• ... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?

  Margaret Deland

  Fall, Iron, Dust

  Margaret Deland (2010). “Around Old Chester”, p.310, Wildside Press LLC

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• What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.

  Margaret Deland

  Mother, Thinking, Hypocrisy

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• ... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.

  Margaret Deland

  Privilege, Conflict, Claims

  Margaret Deland (2015). “The Awakening of Helena Richie”, p.259, The Floating Press

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• Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it!

  Margaret Deland

  Weakness, Ridiculous, Ends

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• Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain embarrassing heavenly reunions.

  Margaret Deland

  Age, Quality, Relief

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

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• Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.

  Margaret Deland

  Book, Sapphires, Insult

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• ... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.

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  Memories, Floating, Wells

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• ... in a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a godly soul in a very little sin.

  Margaret Deland

  Godly, Soul, Wicked

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• ... there must be reserves -- except with God. The human soul is solitary. But for confession that is different; justice and reparation sometimes demand it; but, again, justice and courage sometimes forbid it.

  Margaret Deland

  Justice, Soul, Different

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• silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?

  Margaret Deland

  Moving, Silence, Youth

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• the blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light.

  Margaret Deland

  Light, Blue, Jewels

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• faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.

  Margaret Deland

  Faith, Believe, Heart

  Margaret Deland (2015). “John Ward, Preacher”, p.427, The Floating Press

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• gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.

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  Gossip, Amusement, Insult

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• By some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed.

  Margaret Deland

  Gossip, Feelings, Gone

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• the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.

  Margaret Deland

  Years, Habit, Break

  Margaret Deland (1894). “Sidney”

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• Nature is perfectly impartial. Brain has no sex!

  Margaret Deland

  Sex, Brain

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• a manufactured interest has no staying quality - especially if it involves any hard work.

  Margaret Deland

  Hard Work, Quality, Interest

  Margaret Deland (2015). “The Awakening of Helena Richie”, p.18, The Floating Press

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• a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!

  Margaret Deland

  Cutting, Taste, Unhappiness

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• Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.

  Margaret Deland

  Cake, People, Cooking

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• There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.

  Margaret Deland

  Temptation, Virtue

  Margaret Deland (2015). “The Awakening of Helena Richie”, p.165, The Floating Press

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• I notice that when people have no sense of responsibility, you call them either criminals or geniuses.

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  Responsibility, People, Criminals

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

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