Destroying Quote by Alice Foote MacDougall Download Open image “For too many of us ease is far more soul-destroying than trouble.” — Alice Foote MacDougall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Destroying Ease Idleness Soul Trouble
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It takes real courage to do battle in the unspectacular task. We always listen for the applause of our co-workers. He is courageous who… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Commercialism is the blemish on the fair face of American life. Fighting against the terrible conditions of the explorer and pioneer, our forefathers had… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
... the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
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for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Life is beset by many annoyances, and those that stand out above all are the life- insurance and advertising agents. — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes. — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
When one is working out a problem ... life becomes duality. One's ego transacts the ordinary routine of things, as if the mind had… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
When one is altering the face of the universe one cannot remember small helpful acts. — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
... hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is ignorant criticism, well-meaning but futile advice, the contempt… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
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