Talk:Zoe Akins

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• Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.
  • The Hills Grow Smaller: Poems (1937)

• Of bird and prophet and his light shall lead
  On through the darkness to eventual light,
  To undiscovered wealth, to newer need ...
  • The Hills Grow Smaller: Poems (1937)

• 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.
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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.
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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.
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• Work alone qualifies us for life.
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