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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

~Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

~Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Topics: Admission Come Great Great Idea Great Ideas Idea Ideas Ignorance More Needs Original Press Surround Than Them World

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What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

~Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Topics: Aims Alter Begins Define Distinct Dress He He Or She Immense Life Live Look Motion Over Person Possessing Power Reason She Very Voice

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It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.

~Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Topics: Better Common Doing Duties Effective Great Great Things Little Little Things Most Things

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It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.

~Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Topics: Acquired Becomes Dignity Family Felt Forget Had Hour Impossible Marks Myself Sense Suddenly Value Which World

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Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

~Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Topics: All My Life Been Enough Fixed Formation Grateful Grew Habits Life My Life One Thing Out Small Thing Were Which Work

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Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

~Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Topics: Attention Attract Dress Laws Shall Simplest Surely Taste Worn

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: August 31st, 1844

Died: January 28th, 1911

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