To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn. Gertrude Atherton More Quotes by Gertrude Atherton More Quotes From Gertrude Atherton ... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can. Gertrude Atherton irony life-is forget The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new. Gertrude Atherton stupid self pigs It took me some time to learn that although every one secretly cherishes the ambition to be 'put in a book,' no one is ever satisfied with anything save incense, butter, and honey, unrelieved by salt or spice. Gertrude Atherton spices ambition book ... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive. Gertrude Atherton alive reason book The world changed somewhat in form during its progress, but never in substance. Gertrude Atherton progress substance world I have come to the conclusion that the modern interpretation of the Declaration of Independence is something like this: I am as good as those that think themselves better and a long sight better than those who only think themselves as good. Gertrude Atherton sight long thinking Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent. Gertrude Atherton nursing occupation chance No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue. Gertrude Atherton mind may men In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail. Gertrude Atherton soul tails men I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor. Gertrude Atherton rich realizing problem ... France is the genius among nations. Gertrude Atherton france nations genius [Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time. Gertrude Atherton hamilton portraits thieves the curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities. Gertrude Atherton wings long reality New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength. Gertrude Atherton real new-york manners power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature. Gertrude Atherton human-nature passion power the best of all good friends is pride. Gertrude Atherton good-friend pride It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is. Gertrude Atherton matter men facts Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else! Gertrude Atherton fire opportunity thinking Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes. Gertrude Atherton young-love race baby There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them to cling to old standards, or, if too intelligent to look inhospitably upon progress, to move very slowly. Both types are the brakes and wheelhorses necessary to a stable civilization, but history, even current history in the newspapers, would be dull reading if there were no adventurous spirits willing to do battle for new ideas. Gertrude Atherton strong reading moving
