Emily J. Miller famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, With never a thought of sorrow; The old goes out, but the glad young year Comes merrily in tomorrow.
-- Emily J. Miller

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To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.
On the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. In my mother's case, this would be the first day of the lunar new year. And because it is the new year, all debts must be paid, or disaster and misfortune will follow.
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New Yearâ€™s Eves included. I worked mornings and afternoons, resuming work after dinner. I remember feeling as if life were a protracted exercise in pulling myself out of a well by a rope, and that rope was work.
Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.
But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts
His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.

Emily J. Miller famous quotes

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