Margaret Deland
Margaret Deland
Margaret Delandwas an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. She also wrote an autobiography in two volumes. She is generally considered part of the literary realism movement...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 February 1857
anger casts wells
anger as well as love casts out fear ...
anger people quality
The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.
successful self cobwebs
To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.
christmas years soul
Twenty-five years ago, Christmas was not the burden that it is now; there was less haggling and weighing, less quid pro quo, less fatigue of body, less weariness of soul; and, most of all, there was less loading up with trash.
ministry clergy matrimony
the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!
soul body would-be
I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.
years humanity age
Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope.
adolescence conventional
nothing is as conventional as adolescence.
spiritual sacrifice self
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
time blow enemy
The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.
temptation virtue
There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.
reason conviction
Convictions do not imply reasons.
common-sense dangerous conscience
Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
two habit critters
I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.