Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Quotes
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Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.
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It isn't the thing you do, dear, it's the thing you leave undone which gives you a bit of heartache at the setting at the setting of the sun.
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... Love is heaven and claims its own.
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In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.
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Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.
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Out of the chill and the shadow, into the thrill and the shine. Out of the dearth and the famine, into the fulness divine.
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Theres nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.
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Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.
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On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on a Southern highway, and a friend driving in a pony carriage passed me, stopped and said, "Have you heard that Charles Dickens is dead?" It was as if I had been robbed of one of my dearest friends.
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In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.
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In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.
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Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.
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I know-yet my arms are empty,That fondly folded seven,And the mother heart within meIs almost starved for heaven.
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The people who dream are very often the people who see, and dreaming and seeing precede doing.
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Not always the fanciest cake that's there Is the best to eat!
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Let every birthday be a festival, a time when the gladness of the house finds expression in flowers, in gifts, in a little fête. Never should a birthday be passed over without note, or as if it were a common day, never should it cease to be a garlanded milestone in the road of life.
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Mind does dominate body. We are superior to the house in which we dwell.
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Love turns all the wheels of human industry, is the motive power under the world's machinery, makes worthwhile every enterprise on the earth, is coequal with life, outlasts death, and reaches onward into heaven.
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Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.
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My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect.
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Never yet was a springtime,Late though lingered the snow,That the sap stirred not at the whisperOf the southwind, sweet and low;Never yet was a springtimeWhen the buds forgot to blow.
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One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic.
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I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that could be offered in other pursuits or occupations. Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.
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A letter is the most imperishable thing on earth.