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Gertrude Atherton Quotes

Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes Picture Quote #1

Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else! Picture Quote #1

A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth? Picture Quote #1

I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor Picture Quote #1

It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is Picture Quote #1

There is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly Picture Quote #1

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Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world Picture Quote #1

The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time Picture Quote #1

A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one’s bag of precautions Picture Quote #1

Has it ever occurred to you, that the rich are at the mercy of the poor, not the poor at that of the rich? Who permits us to be rich if not the poor? Picture Quote #1

There is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything Picture Quote #1

Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness Picture Quote #1

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The curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities Picture Quote #1

Her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius Picture Quote #1

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over Picture Quote #1

Orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them Picture Quote #1

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit Picture Quote #1

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn Picture Quote #1

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Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes (Gertrude Atherton Quotes) Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else! (Gertrude Atherton Quotes) A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth? (Gertrude Atherton Quotes) I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor (Gertrude Atherton Quotes) It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is (Gertrude Atherton Quotes) There is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly (Gertrude Atherton Quotes) Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world (Gertrude Atherton Quotes) The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time (Gertrude Atherton Quotes) A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one’s bag of precautions (Gertrude Atherton Quotes) Has it ever occurred to you, that the rich are at the mercy of the poor, not the poor at that of the rich? Who permits us to be rich if not the poor? (Gertrude Atherton Quotes) There is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything (Gertrude Atherton Quotes) Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness (Gertrude Atherton Quotes) The curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities (Gertrude Atherton Quotes) Her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius (Gertrude Atherton Quotes) It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over (Gertrude Atherton Quotes) Orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them (Gertrude Atherton Quotes) Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit (Gertrude Atherton Quotes) To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn (Gertrude Atherton Quotes)

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