Zoe Akins

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It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.
- Zoe Akins
Collection: Flower
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Even the great can have only their own sort of greatness.
- Zoe Akins
Collection: Greatness
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Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.
- Zoe Akins
Collection: Forgiveness
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Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.
- Zoe Akins
Collection: Life Is
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The success-haters. That's what I call them -- the people who have never got what they want and turned sour on everybody who has. The world's full of them. As soon as you've made good they begin to watch for you to fail.
- Zoe Akins
Collection: People
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It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.
- Zoe Akins
Collection: Wife
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To accuse is so easy that it is infamous to do so where proof is impossible!
- Zoe Akins
Collection: Impossible
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Of bird and prophet and his light shall lead On through the darkness to eventual light, To undiscovered wealth, to newer need . . .
- Zoe Akins
Collection: Leadership
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No one can ever help loving anyone.
- Zoe Akins
Collection: Helping
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Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.
- Zoe Akins
Collection: Marriage