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> [“They drove up Third Avenue so that they might see the famous Stuyvesant pear tree on the corner of Thirteenth Street. Again for the two hundredth time its ancient boughs were loaded with blossoms. How strange it was that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anya-seton/they-drove-up-third-avenue-so-that-they-might-see-the-famous/)

[Anya Seton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anya-seton/)

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## More by Anya Seton

> [“He was all sin and mystery, and Miranda feared the pleasures he offered as she feared the fires of hell. Yet when she succumbed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anya-seton/he-was-all-sin-and-mystery-and-miranda-feared-the-pleasures-he/)

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> [“Miranda was shocked to hear Nicholas speak of slavery in glowing terms, as an efficient agricultural system. This wasn't the South! Yet as she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anya-seton/miranda-was-shocked-to-hear-nicholas-speak-of-slavery-in-glowing/)

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> [I only know that from wherever it is that we're going there can be no turning back](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anya-seton/i-only-know-that-from-wherever-it-is-that-we-re-going-there-can-be-no/)

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> [“Elizabeth knew it was a fast day, but the rumbling in her belly was harder to ignore than the grumbling of the preacher.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anya-seton/elizabeth-knew-it-was-a-fast-day-but-the-rumbling-in-her-belly-was/)

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> [“Mistress Allen was only an ordinary provincial manor lady, bent on nothing more sinister than retrieving money of which she felt defrauded, and in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anya-seton/mistress-allen-was-only-an-ordinary-provincial-manor-lady-bent-on/)

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> [“The orchard where they stood was on higher ground than the farmhouse, which nestled like a white dove beneath hemlocks and the tall protecting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anya-seton/the-orchard-where-they-stood-was-on-higher-ground-than-the-farmhouse/)

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> [I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anya-seton/i-am-sure-that-no-man-asks-mercy-and-grace-with-true-meaning-but-if/)

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> [It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anya-seton/it-is-seldom-in-life-that-one-knows-that-a-coming-event-is-to-be-of/)

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> [“The knights were disgusted. They said that all that fiddle-faddle was well enough for saints, or might have been a thousand years ago, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anya-seton/the-knights-were-disgusted-they-said-that-all-that-fiddle-faddle-was/)

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> [There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anya-seton/there-are-many-trails-up-the-mountain-but-in-time-they-all-reach-the/)

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> [“Presently comfort came to him, and he thought the she had always given him of her strength though he had never quite realised it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anya-seton/presently-comfort-came-to-him-and-he-thought-the-she-had-always-given/)

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> [“Her body consented willingly to all that her soul found most abhorrent. As Nicholas had promised, there was a hellish delight in knowing she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anya-seton/her-body-consented-willingly-to-all-that-her-soul-found-most/)

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> [The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anya-seton/the-soul-may-have-many-symbols-with-which-it-reaches-toward-god/)

[Anya Seton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anya-seton/)

> [Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anya-seton/truth-is-naturally-universal-and-shines-into-many-different-windows/)

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> [As I grew up I got cynical. I'd see Mother enthusiastic and involved with charlatans. Numerologists and astrologists who charged five hundred dollars for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anya-seton/as-i-grew-up-i-got-cynical-i-d-see-mother-enthusiastic-and-involved/)

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