Finished Quote by Ethel M. Dell

“People have a way of thinking that everything is finished when the very best of all may yet be in store.”

Ethel M. Dell

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That's the worst of doctors. They are so keen about the body, but they don't study the soul at all.

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Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.

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Promises were made for people who do not trust each other.

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I haven't hurt you ... if I have, it's the faithful wound of a friend.

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What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new.

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What we once fling away never comes again to us.

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we are all given the ingredients of happiness, but the mixing is left to ourselves.

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