No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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About Eleanor Roosevelt

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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt ( EL-in-or ROH-zə-velt; October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was an American political figure, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving first lady of the United States, during her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms as president from 1933 to 1945. Through her travels, public engagement,...

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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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A woman is like a tea bag—you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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A person's a person, no matter how small.

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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

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Having this, and losing it, made it even sweeter the second time around.

—R.K. Lilley in Lovely Trigger

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One day Joseph Lister was summoned to assist a wealthy lord with a fishbone that had lodged at the back of his throat. After Lister had skillfully removed the obstruction, the grateful patient asked him what he was owed. "My lord," Lister suggested, "suppose we settle for half of what you would be willing to give me if the bone were still lodged in your throat.

—The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes

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They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

—Kahlil Gibran

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