Margaret Deland Quotes - Page 4

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

  Margaret Deland

  Memories, Floating, Wells

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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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• ... 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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• 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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• ... 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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• Convictions do not imply reasons.

  Margaret Deland

  Reason, Conviction

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• ... Love never forgets; or if it does, it is an imperfect love, like the beautiful love of a dog, faithful and unreasoning.

  Margaret Deland

  Beautiful, Dog, Faithful

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• Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

  Margaret Deland

  Common Sense, Dangerous, Conscience

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• nothing is as conventional as adolescence.

  Margaret Deland

  Adolescence, Conventional

  Margaret Deland (2015). “The Iron Woman”, p.63, The Floating Press

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• ... it is curious how fatal it is, either to a situation or to an individual, or even to a name, if in an evil moment it becomes funny.

  Margaret Deland

  Names, Evil, Moments

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• A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.

  Margaret Deland

  Positive, Flames, May

  Margaret Deland (2015). “The Awakening of Helena Richie”, p.230, The Floating Press

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