"Let us candidly confess our indebtedness to the needle. How many hours of sorrow has it softened, how many bitter irritations calmed, how many confused thoughts reduced to order, how many life-plans sketched in purple!"

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Source : Caroline Wells Healey Dall (1868). “The College, the Market, and the Court: Or Woman's Relation to Education, Labor, and Law”, p.9

Caroline Wells Healey Dall

#Confused Quotes #Irritation Quotes #Order Quotes

“Love, we are a small pond.”

Source : Maxine Kumin (1970). “The nightmare factory”
“I think that when NASA works on a moon shot, they know too well that all of the people working on it must do their job at 110 percent. Sometimes they probably put in 18 hour days, but they're aiming for the moon, and that's what counts”
“The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.”
“I'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references.”
“I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.”

Source : "Orioles' Palmeiro Suspended for Steroids". www.foxnews.com. August 1, 2005.
“I was a little chubby, rosy-cheeked kid.”
“Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem.”
“You cannot control sin. Sin will control you. Do not try to manage sin.”

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