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> [ \[On religion:\] Wasn't it invented by man for a kind of solace? It's as though he had said, 'I'll make me a nice comfortable garment to shut out the heat and the cold,' and then it ends by becoming a… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-sligh-turnbull/on-religion-wasn-t-it-invented-by-man-for-a-kind-of-solace-it-s-as/)

[Agnes Sligh Turnbull](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-sligh-turnbull/)

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## More by Agnes Sligh Turnbull

> [Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-sligh-turnbull/learn-to-drink-the-cup-of-life-as-it-comes/)

[Agnes Sligh Turnbull](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-sligh-turnbull/)

> [There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-sligh-turnbull/there-is-only-one-thing-about-which-i-shall-have-no-regrets-when-my/)

[Agnes Sligh Turnbull](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-sligh-turnbull/)

> [Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-sligh-turnbull/dogs-lives-are-too-short-their-only-fault-really/)

[Agnes Sligh Turnbull](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-sligh-turnbull/)

> [If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he's the hell of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-sligh-turnbull/if-a-diplomat-says-yes-he-means-perhaps-if-he-says-perhaps-he-means/)

[Agnes Sligh Turnbull](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-sligh-turnbull/)

> [You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-sligh-turnbull/you-must-learn-to-drink-the-cup-of-life-as-it-comes-without-stirring/)

[Agnes Sligh Turnbull](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-sligh-turnbull/)

> [There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-sligh-turnbull/there-is-still-vitality-under-the-winter-snow-even-though-to-the/)

[Agnes Sligh Turnbull](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-sligh-turnbull/)

> [When the desire ain't on me I don't need help. When it is on me I don't want any. See? Like the old fellah…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-sligh-turnbull/when-the-desire-ain-t-on-me-i-don-t-need-help-when-it-is-on-me-i-don/)

[Agnes Sligh Turnbull](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-sligh-turnbull/)

> [the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-sligh-turnbull/the-human-soul-by-once-suffering-as-much-as-it-is-capable-of/)

[Agnes Sligh Turnbull](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-sligh-turnbull/)

> [A country-bred man can always learn to get on with city people, but a town-bred fellah never gets the real hang of the country.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-sligh-turnbull/a-country-bred-man-can-always-learn-to-get-on-with-city-people-but-a/)

[Agnes Sligh Turnbull](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-sligh-turnbull/)

> [Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-sligh-turnbull/defeat-in-itself-was-part-and-parcel-of-the-great-gambling-game-of/)

[Agnes Sligh Turnbull](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-sligh-turnbull/)

> [ \[On religion:\] Wasn't it invented by man for a kind of solace? It's as though he had said, 'I'll make me a nice comfortable… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-sligh-turnbull/on-religion-wasn-t-it-invented-by-man-for-a-kind-of-solace-it-s-as/)

[Agnes Sligh Turnbull](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-sligh-turnbull/)

> [Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! ... Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It's the most loquacious of all. You really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-sligh-turnbull/burning-logs-can-carry-on-quite-a-conversation-have-you-ever-heard/)

[Agnes Sligh Turnbull](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-sligh-turnbull/)

> [The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-sligh-turnbull/the-idea-of-perfection-always-gives-one-a-chance-to-talk-without/)

[Agnes Sligh Turnbull](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-sligh-turnbull/)

> [Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-sligh-turnbull/do-you-know-that-the-tendrils-of-graft-and-corruption-have-become/)

[Agnes Sligh Turnbull](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-sligh-turnbull/)

> [I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-sligh-turnbull/i-think-we-foreshorten-our-own-viewpoint-if-we-consider-any-state-of/)

[Agnes Sligh Turnbull](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-sligh-turnbull/)

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