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There's plenty of fire in the coldest flint!
Rachel Field / Novelist
Fire
Plenty
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...his hoofbeats fall like rain, over and over again.
Rachel Field / Novelist
Fall
Horse
Rain
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A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight.
Rachel Field / Novelist
Littles
Sight
Towns
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You know the public is more easily swayed by persons than by principles.
Rachel Field / Novelist
Knows
Persons
Principles
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And scandal has a way of catching up with those who disregard its power.
Rachel Field / Novelist
Catching Up
Scandal
Way
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The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.
Rachel Field / Novelist
Experience
Bird
Sight
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I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.
Rachel Field / Novelist
Fire
Opinion
Public Opinion
Wind
Lighted
Shift
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It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.
Rachel Field / Novelist
Terrible
Weak
Weakness
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When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.
Rachel Field / Novelist
Jealousy
Envy
People
Tree
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, though while it held one fast all other realities faded.
Rachel Field / Novelist
Left
Pain
Reality
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
Rachel Field / Novelist
Pain
Fast
Failed
Held
Realities
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One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
Rachel Field / Novelist
Book
Book Writing
Old Friends
Writing
Touch
Brings
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I was never one to begrudge people their memories. From a child I would listen when they spoke of the past.
Rachel Field / Novelist
Book
Children
Memories
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no matter how hard and faithfully we may try we can never compensate another for some lack in his or her life.
Rachel Field / Novelist
Matter
May
Trying
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
Rachel Field / Novelist
Ambition
Confused
Discontent
Thinking
Easily
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Doorbells are like a magic game, Or the grab-bag at a fair -- You never know when you hear one ring Who may be waiting there.
Rachel Field / Novelist
Games
Magic
Waiting
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Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
Rachel Field / Novelist
Happiness
Desert
Fortune
Good Fortune
Greener
Oasis
Too Much
Smug
Surrounds
Unaware
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The difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and which you are feeling!
Rachel Field / Novelist
Ambition
Differences
Feelings
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Isnt it strange some people make You feel so tired inside, Your thoughts begin to shrivel up Like leaves all brown and dried!But when youre with some other ones Its stranger still to find Your thought as thick as fireflies All shiny in your mind!
Rachel Field / Novelist
Firefly
Thinking
Tired
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No hardy perennial has the enduring quality of hope. Cut it to the roots, stamp it underfoot, let frost and fire work their will, and still some valiant shoot will push, to grow again on such scanty fare as it can find. Only time and the cruel quicklime of fact can destroy that stubborn urgency.
Rachel Field / Novelist
Hope
Cutting
Fire
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Something told the wild geese It was time to go. Though the fields lay golden Something whispered, "snow." Leaves were green and stirring, Berries, luster-glossed, But beneath warm feathers Something cautioned, "frost." All the sagging orchards Steamed with amber spice But each wild breast stiffened At remembered ice. Something told the wild geese It was time to fly- Summer sun was on their wings, Winter in their cry.
Rachel Field / Novelist
Autumn
Summer
Winter
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