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There was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

She is the best-dressed woman in the county, and the best looking," said Mrs. Bates, "and that's all there is to her.

Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?

Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

Down the footpath the two went through the perfect morning, the love of God and all nature in their hearts.

Not!' This is a house of worship. The Lord may be drawing her in His own way. It is for us to help Him by being kind and making her welcome.

Knowing things will not harm you. Doing them is a different matter. What you know will be a protection. What you do ruins - if it is wrong.

I loved words that filled your mouth, and sounded as if you were used to books.

Reason may be depended upon to keep its balance when God gives the surcease of tears in time of trouble.

But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora.
"Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy ...

You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.

I was born a sweater, I shall just go on sweating until I die; I refuse to begin perspiring at my time of life." "You

It takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.

What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?

Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

Maybe after all it's a good thing to tell people about their meanness and give them a stirring up once in a while.

You should be more than an imitator. You must be a creator!" Donald

The seasons run with swift feet.

I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.

That spring I decided if school didn't stop pretty soon, I'd run away again, and I didn't in the least care what they did to me.

He only knew that he had lived up to his best impulse, and that is all any one can do.

Ance a man-child has beaten his way to life under the heart of a woman, she is mither to all men, for the hearts of mithers are everywhere the same.

We know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.

Comstock, but I left a wrong impression with you. I don't want

Friends are plenty when the purse is full.

Nature always levies her tribute.

It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.

The Cardinal ... It was as if a pulsing heart of flame passed by when he came winging through the orchard.

Turn her loose out of doors; give her good books, and leave her alone. You won't be disappointed in the woman who evolves.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

Mother was little but she was mighty.

You people are not splitting wood, called Elnora.

No one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.

Money was their God; work their religion ...

She said. Mrs. Comstock did not reply. She watched the girl follow the long walk to the gate and go from sight on the road, in the bright sunshine