Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quotes
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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance…
Admission
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... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is tragedy, it is…
Always Moral
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The rainiest nights, like the rainiest lives, are by no means the saddest.
Inspirational
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Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.
Attention
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Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits…
All
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What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a…
Aim
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It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired…
Acquired
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The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.
Affection
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It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better…
Better
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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run…
Alone
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