Dorothy Dix
Dorothy Dix
Dorothy Dix, was the pseudonym of U.S. journalist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer...
bears trouble harder
It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.
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So many persons think divorce a panacea for every ill, who find out, when they try it, that the remedy is worse than the disease
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You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.
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We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves.
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Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
fear dark worry
I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.
women laughing tears
There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.
women age poverty
The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.
women tears occupation
Drying a widow's tears is one of the most dangerous occupations known to man.
smile men weapons
There is no weapon in the feminine armory to which men are so vulnerable as they are to a smile.
heart men people
For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.
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The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.
adventure world done
In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.
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Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry.