Quote by May Sarton
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I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become… but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress. – May Sarton

Other quotes by May Sarton

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. – May Sarton

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gardening
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Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. – May Sarton

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gardening
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A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. – May Sarton

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Gardens
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Other Quotes from
Christmas
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I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas – thats my favorite of all! – Joe Nichols

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Christmas

A friend gave me a CD of the Pathetique Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started ta ta ta taaa. It was too long for me. I didnt understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love. – Gustavo Dudamel

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Christmas

I put the copy of A Christmas Carol that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the Christmas Spirits. I plan to read it to my grandson. – Whitley Strieber

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Christmas

I save every Christmas card. I keep them all. – Alison Sweeney

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Christmas

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Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier. – Marie Laurencin

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When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. – Arthur Conan Doyle

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Truth

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. – Jonathan Kozel

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Wise Words

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. – Leo Tolstoy

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