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    Nancy E. Turner
    “A nice girl should never go anywhere without a loaded gun and a big knife." ~ Sarah Agnes Prine”
    ― Nancy E. Turner
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    Nancy E. Turner
    “The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.”
    ― Nancy E. Turner
    tags: marriage, motherhood, wife, women
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    Nancy E. Turner
    “We are a noisy and blessed little family”
    ― Nancy E. Turner, These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
    tags: family, happiness
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    Nancy E. Turner
    “Mama told me to make a special point to remember the best times of my life. There are so many hard things to live through, and latching on to the good things will give you strength to endure, she says. So I must remember this day. It is beautiful and this seems like the best time to live and the best place”
    ― Nancy E. Turner, These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
    tags: contentment, life
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    Nancy E. Turner
    “Getting out of bed is a good way to leave your troubles behind.”
    ― Nancy E. Turner, Sarah's Quilt
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    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “You can't plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind.”
    ― Gordon B. Hinckley
    tags: enterprise, planning
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    Kate Morton
    “A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.”
    ― Kate Morton , The Forgotten Garden
    tags: dependence
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    Kate Morton
    “You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.”
    ― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden
    tags: inspirational-life
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    Kate Morton
    “Always remember, with a strong enough will, even the weak can wield great power.”
    ― kate morton, The Forgotten Garden
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  • #10
    Mother Teresa
    “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa, paraphrased
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Henry Ford
    “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
    ― Henry Ford
    tags: thinking
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Whatever you are, be a good one.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales
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    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, classic, reading
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    Kathryn Stockett
    “Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?”
    ― Kathryn Stockett, The Help
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    Kathryn Stockett
    “You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
    ― Kathryn Stockett, The Help
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    Charles Dickens
    “Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”
    ― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
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    Charles Dickens
    “My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.”
    ― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
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    Charles Dickens
    “I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.”
    ― Charles Dickens (David Copperfield), David Copperfield
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    Charles Dickens
    “The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.”
    ― Charles Dickens
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    Charles Dickens
    “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness.
    Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery”
    ― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
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    George Eliot
    “No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.”
    ― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
    tags: damnation, doom, evil, sin, soul, temptation, unrepentance
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    George Eliot
    “And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.”
    ― George Eliot, Middlemarch
    tags: men-women
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    George Eliot
    “We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.”
    ― George Eliot, Middlemarch
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    George Eliot
    “For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.”
    ― George Eliot, Middlemarch
    tags: pain-memories-compassion
    132 likes



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