Anna Brackett Quotes
The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.
Anna Brackett
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We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.
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He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.
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Perchance — He knows — canst thou not trust His love?
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You have got to play the game with the cards that have been dealt to you, and it is of no use for you to bewail your fate because you don't hold different ones. Look them over, arrange them, and play. You certainly must play them before you will get any others, and you need never expect to have other people's cards.
Anna Brackett
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Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.
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What we learn for the sake of knowing, we hold; what we learn for the sake of accomplishing some ulterior end, we forget as soon as that end has been gained. This, too, is automatic action in the constitution of the mind itself, and it is fortunate and merciful that it is so, for otherwise our minds would be soon only rubbish-rooms.
Anna Brackett
