"In health, in the bustle of living, it was easy to believe in heaven and a life to come. But when the blow fell, and those you loved passed into the great Silence, where you could not get at them, or they at you, then doubts, aching doubts took possession of one."

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Source : Henry Handel Richardson, Henry Handel Richardson (pseud.) (1971). “Ultima Thule”

Henry Handel Richardson

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“Human pride is a strange thing; it cannot easily be suppressed, and if you stop up hole A will peep forth again in a twinkling from another hole B, and if this is closed it is ready to come out at hole C, and so on.”
“I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.”
“I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.”
“Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.”
“He leaned upon her as if there was no other support anywhere in the world, and she held him as if she would undertake no other task for all eternity.”
“Im a McDonalds girl - several times a week. Usually the two-cheeseburger combo meal.”
“The good movies that people want to keep are probably creating their value more than anything else.”
“The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth-right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.”

Source : Said to David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary on December 24, 1860. "The Civil War: A Book of Quotations" by Robert Blaisdell, 2004.

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