Marah Ellis Ryan Quotes

• People need all the good memories they can keep with them in this world; they're a sort of steering apparatus in a life-boat.

  Marah Ellis Ryan

  Memories, People, Needs

  Marah Ellis Ryan (1891). “Told in the Hills”, p.146, Library of Alexandria

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• with the spring a sort of inspiration is wakened in the most prosaic of us. The same spirit of change that thrills the saplings with fresh vitality sends through human veins a creeping ecstasy of new life.

  Marah Ellis Ryan

  Spring, Inspiration, Vitality

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• Woman! woman! What a disturbing element you are in the universe - man's universe!

  Marah Ellis Ryan

  Women, Elements, Disturbing

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• the greater part of the suffering in the world is caused not by wicked intents and hard hearts, but by the careless desire to shirk unpleasant facts, and the soft-heartedness that will assuage momentary pain at the price of making a life-long cripple, either mentally, morally, or physically.

  Marah Ellis Ryan

  Pain, Heart, Long

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• Few questions make long friends in the hills.

  Marah Ellis Ryan

  Long, Hills

  Marah Ellis Ryan (1891). “Told in the Hills”, p.264, Library of Alexandria

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