Susan Ertz famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
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Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.
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Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don't mind poverty and misery and cruelty to animals nearly as much.
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Crises have a way of thrusting into the limelight hitherto obscure persons, and giving them, for a long or short period, a leading role.
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Laura Alicia Deverell was born on May 10th, 1862, at precisely a quarter past one o'clock on a Thursday morning. Those interested in that pseudo-science astrology or astromancy may trace her life and character, if they wish, among the stars, where no doubt it is all written.
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All dogs seem to be great linguists, according to their owners. They always understand every word that's said to them.
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The novelists of the nineteeth century had all the luck. They had a huge and easily pleased public and the world they surveyed had every appearance of permanence.
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One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.
-- Susan Ertz
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A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
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When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
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Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.
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Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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If you want anything to work, Sunday, you're going to have to believe it
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Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!†said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
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