Phyllis Bottome Quotes

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• Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
• That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can…
• A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.
• To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow…
• It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
• To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy,…
• There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.
• Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
• Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.
• Anger is like mild, it should not be kept too long.
• This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path…
• If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.
• If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
• Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.
• In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include at least a rudimentary grasp of…
• We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.
• It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.
• To be in the right is often an expensive business.
• Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
• There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

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