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1. "Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with a melody that would last forever. Even though you grew up and found you could never quite bring back the magic feeling of this night, the melody would stay in your heart always - a song for all the years." ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
2. "For though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver, the bright, steady glow of its fire still shines on the hearth-stones of countless homes..." ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
3. "There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication." ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
4. "The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work." ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
5. "It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us." ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
6. "Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys ought to be hung. Others, less irritable, think that gently chloroforming them would seem more humane. A great many good-natured folks contend that incarceration for a couple of years would prove the best way to dispose of them." ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
7. "All my girlhood I always planned to do something big…something constructive. It's queer what ambitious dreams a girl has when she is young. I thought I would sing before big audiences or paint lovely pictures or write a splendid book. I always had that feeling in me of wanting to do something worth while. And just think, Laura…now I am eighty and I have not painted nor written nor sung." "But you've done lots of things, Grandma. You've baked bread…and pieced quilts…and taken care of your children." Old Abbie Deal patted the young girl's hand. "Well…well…out of the mouths of babes. That's just it, Laura, I've only baked bread and pieced quilts and taken care of children. But some women have to, don't they?...But I've dreamed dreams, Laura. All the time I was cooking and patching and washing, I dreamed dreams. And I think I dreamed them into the children…and the children are carrying them out...doing all the things I wanted to and couldn't." ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
8. "...And how that girl did talk against time to make us think she was crazy about her Louie. She called attention to his honesty and his ability and his nose and the shape of his feet and his blue blood and his energy and what-have-you, and all the time, I was dying to quote that smart old Billy Shakespeare who was just as wordy as she was: 'Methinks the lady doth protest too much." ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
9. "Ella held herself rigidly against all emotion until she arrived at the dark haven of her room. Then she threw herself across her bed and cried because life was such a tragic thing." ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
10. "...Mabel put on the boiled potatos, unmashed, the stewed tomatos, some inferior dried beef, and some bread that plainly said, 'Darling, I am growing old'." ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
11. "...Uncle Harry Wentworth's dollar was turned deep under the sod. But though the sun shone on it and the rain fell, nothing ever came from it,—not a green thing nor a singing thing nor a human soul." ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
12. "Hours fly...Flowers die." ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
13. "Then she laughed, a bubbling, deliciously girlish laugh, and the Thing relaxed its hold on her heart, turned up its toes, and died." ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
14. "You know, Grace, it's queer but I don't feel narrow. I feel broad. How can I explain it to you, so you would understand? I've seen everything...and I've hardly been away from this yard....I've been part of the beginning and part of the growth. I've married...and borne children and looked into the face of death. Is childbirth narrow, Grace? Or marriage? Or death? When you've experienced all those things, Grace, the spirit has traveled although the body has been confined. I think travel is a rare privilege and I'm glad you can have it. But not every one who stays at home is narrow and not every one who travels is broad. I think if you can understand humanity...can sympathize with every creature...can put yourself into the personality of every one...you're not narrow...you're broad." ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
15. "And of course, everybody thinks it's just like it used to be when the Indians jazzed around and played 'You're it' with arrows." ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
16. "Seventy-five years ago a young woman kept a diary in which she wrote some of her innermost thoughts, many of the daily happenings, and all of the weather. This story is the fictionalized version of the real diary. The thoughts more or less trite pedantic have been curtailed, the happenings (for obvious reasons) sometimes changed, but the weather remains practically intact. ...So step out of the yellowed diary, Linnie Colsworth,.... Recreate yourself from the fading ink of it's pages and help us understand something of the stanch heart that beat under those hard little stays, bidding you defy convention three-quarters of a century ago." ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
17. "..Like the cavities of missing teeth in some giant denture, into which new ones were to be fitted." ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
18. "He [Sam] wrote it with great flourishes, his hand making many dizzy elliptical journeys before it settled down to make a elaborate 'E' with a curving tail as long as some prehistoric baboons." ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
19. "...The last name had been entered by Samuel Peters' agile pen with much shading of downward strokes and many extra corkscrew appendages..." ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
20. "Hair, to Tillie, meant nothing by way of being a woman's crowning glory. It was merely, as the dictionary so ably states, small horny, fibrous tubes withbulbous roots, growing out of the skins of mammals; and it was meant to be combed down as flat as possible and held in place with countless wire hairpins." ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
21. "Betty, who had found an old battered doll, was sitting quietly in the corner and industriously endeavoring to pick its one eye out" ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
22. "Katherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior's] speech. Not an insignificant "have went" nor an infinitesimal "I seen" ever escaped the keen ears of his eldest sister, who immediately corrected him. Mother sometimes thought Katherine a little severe when, in the interest of proper speaking, she would stop him in the midst of an exciting account of a home-run. There were times, thought Mother, when the spirit of the thing was so much more important than the flesh in which it was clothed." ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
23. "You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try and make it like the ideal. If you want a garden,-why, I guess you've got to dream a garden." ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
24. "...For can you think how it would be, to never, never hear a meadow lark sing again...?" ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
25. "I . . . you mean me?""Quite naturally, when I said, 'What about you, yourself,' I meantyou." ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
26. "The wheels where enormous wooden affairs, the back ones rounding up over the windows of the coach." ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich

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In a WWII radio talk, Lewis champions the well-established idea that actions lead emotions. Although he is making the point with respect to love, he illustrates with the opposite. The Germans hated the Jews, then acted on that. Because they did, their loathing was intensified by their own actions."
Author: C.S. Lewis

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