"There was a new kind of strength in……" — Willa Cather
"There was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colors still gave her that look of deep-seated health and ardor."
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138 Quotes by Willa Cather
Willa Cather has 138 quotes on this site.
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Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark…
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
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Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile,…
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There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had…
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
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The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power…
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
— Abigail Adams
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Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but…
— Thomas Jefferson
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How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred…
— Charles Perrault
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Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.
— Propertius
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Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it…
— Jonathan Mayhew
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We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Youth is a beautiful dream, on whose brightness books shed a blinding dust. Will ever the day come when the…
— Khalil Gibran
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