Doors Quote by Nancy Byrd Turner

“Under our thatch, friend, place shall abide for you, touch but the latch, friend, the door will swing wide for you!” quote by Nancy Byrd Turner — Download Open image

“Under our thatch, friend, place shall abide for you, touch but the latch, friend, the door will swing wide for you!”

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“Distinctively gentle he was, and trustworthy, and of special courtesy. His great physical strength was never used in combat, men remembered, except when needed for the defence of the weak. In the last hours, when his mind went roving over the past, he said to someone who stoody by: 'I thank god that in all my life I never struck…

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“She saw at last that her strange son was fired by some purpose which he would carry out or die. Seeing that, she finally currendered--the first casualty of the Revolution in Virginia. In so far as she herself realized, the sacrifice was made for George Wahington, but subconsciously she made it for his cause--just as unaware and obeying by blind…

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“It is safe to say that not all the cooking and sewing and farm management of an entire year signified as much hard work…

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“The trouble is, we are incurable sentimentalists. We insist on makin over historical characters to suit our preconceived notions of what they should be,…

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“But this woman was all mother. A stern one, perhaps, and autocratic at times, and somewhat hard--but after all and in spite of all, intensely maternal. She did not look to large, far issues, nor did she know how to deal with subtleties and potentialityies; her business, from first to last, was the old elemental business of bearing and rearing.…

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Death is only an old door/Set in a garden wall.

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Death is only an old door Set in a garden wall; On quiet hinges it gives, at dusk When the thrushes call. Along the…

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The Bookshop has a thousand books, All colors, hues, and tinges, And every cover is a door That turns on magic hinges.

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“By nature and by training this woman was all for conservation of life. She had been brought up in rather a strict and narrow…

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Oh, heart, let's never grow too old To smile anew, when Christmas comes, At tassels red and tinsel thread, And tarlatan bags f sugarplums.

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