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We are tomorrow's past.
Mary Webb / Novelist
Past
Teaching
Tomorrow
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Autumn is full of leave-taking.
Mary Webb / Novelist
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Saddle your dreams before you ride em.
Mary Webb / Novelist
Dream
Dreams
Ems
Saddles
Your Dreams
Dreams Your Your Dreams
Before
Dreams Your Dreams Your
Ride
Saddle
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Fragrance is the voice of inanimate things.
Mary Webb / Novelist
Fragrance
Smell
Voice
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If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.
Mary Webb / Novelist
Kindness
Life
Be Kind
Generosity
Memorable
Path
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The more anybody wants a thing, the more they do think others want it.
Mary Webb / Novelist
Thinking
Want
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Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
Mary Webb / Novelist
Music
Nature
Jumping To Conclusions
Music Is
Silence
Never
Conclusions
Her
Over
Silences
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The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small.
Mary Webb / Novelist
Abundance
Buckets
Providence
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It's the folks that depend on us for this and for the other that we most do miss.
Mary Webb / Novelist
Depends
Folks
Missing
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For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.
Mary Webb / Novelist
Doe
Insane
Soul
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It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening.
Mary Webb / Novelist
Education
Made
Window
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If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.
Mary Webb / Novelist
Aim
Knows
Poet
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Green is the fresh emblem of well founded hopes. In blue the spirit can wander, but in green it can rest.
Mary Webb / Novelist
Blue
Color
May
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She had for so many years been trying to be like other people, that she was now like nothing in heaven or earth.
Mary Webb / Novelist
Heaven
People
Years
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Autumn is full of leave-taking. In September the swallows are chattering of destination and departure like a crowd of tourists.
Mary Webb / Novelist
Autumn
Departure
Tourists
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Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.
Mary Webb / Novelist
Digestion
Give Me
Giving
Good Digestion
Lord
Thee
Best Good Me
Digest
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But when you dwell in a house you mislike, you will look out of a window a deal more than those that are content with their dwelling.
Mary Webb / Novelist
Home
Dwelling
House
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it is the way of lovers to think that none can bless or succour their love but their own selves. And there is a touch of truth in it, maybe more than a touch.
Mary Webb / Novelist
Self
Thinking
Way
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The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.
Mary Webb / Novelist
Invisible
Mute
Past
Tomorrow
Glance
Infinitely
Murmur
Precious
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Who can say which is the greater sign of creative power, the sun with its planet system swinging with governed impetus to some incalculable end, or the gold sallow catkin with its flashing system of little flies?
Mary Webb / Novelist
Nature
Creative
Gold
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Every time I meet a tree, if I am truly awake, I stand in awe before it. I listen to its voice, a silent sermon moving me to the depths, touching my heart, and stirring up within my soul a yearning to give my all.
Mary Webb / Novelist
Heart
Moving
Voice
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The love of nature is a passion for those in whom it once lodges. It can never be quenched. It cannot change. It is a furious, burning, physical greed, as well as a state of mystical exaltation. It will have its own.
Mary Webb / Novelist
Nature
Greed
Passion
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No accident of environment or circumstance need cut us off from nature. ... It does not matter how shut in we are. Opportunity for wide experience is of small acccount in this as in other things; it is depth that brings understanding and life.
Mary Webb / Novelist
Nature
Opportunity
Cutting
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Love unspoken is the most tremendous force in the world. One is amazed at the way in which people waste their time making speeches, agitating, praying, even. They might save their breath. The great lovers of the world, in silence, rule the world.
Mary Webb / Novelist
Great Love
People
Silence
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For the world is founded and built up on death, and the reality of death is neither to be questioned nor feared. Death is a dark dream, but it is not a nightmare. It is mankind's lack of pity, mankind's fatal propensity for torture, that is the nightmare.
Mary Webb / Novelist
Death
Dream
Dark
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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.
Mary Webb / Novelist
Marriage
Fire
Passion
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There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between flowers of equal loveliness. ... The true anthologist has the greatest difficulty in finishing his book. There is always just one more, a new, delicious discovery.
Mary Webb / Novelist
Book
Flower
Garden
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There is surely no more unselfish person than the anthologist. For while all we others are striving to ensure our own immortality with eagerness, beguilements, buffooneries, loud voices, 'the sound of battle and garments rolled in blood,' the anthologist is quietly ensuring the immortality of somebody else.
Mary Webb / Novelist
Battle
Blood
Loud Voices
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