Mary Webb Quotes

We are tomorrow's past.

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Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'em.

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Saddle your dreams before you ride them.

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.

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The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small.

It made me glad to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening.

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.

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Few things are more stimulating than the sight of the forceful wings of large birds cleaving the vagueness of air and making the piled clouds a mere background for their concentrated life.

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