Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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To wake in the night: be wide awake in an instant, with all your faculties on edge: to wake, and be under compulsion to set in, night for night, at the same point, knowing from grim experience, that the demons awaiting you have each to be grappled with in turn, no single one of them left unthrown, before you can win through to the peace that is utter exhaustion.

Henry Handel Richardson's Popular Quotes

The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth.

- Henry Handel Richardson

Oh! mothers aren't fair - I mean it's not fair of nature to weigh us down with them and yet expect us to be our own true selves. The handicap's too g…

- Henry Handel Richardson

To wake in the night: be wide awake in an instant, with all your faculties on edge: to wake, and be under compulsion to set in, night for night, at t…

- Henry Handel Richardson

There are enough women to do the childbearing and the childrearing. I know of none who can write my books.

- Henry Handel Richardson

In health, in the bustle of living, it was easy to believe in heaven and a life to come. But when the blow fell, and those you loved passed into the …

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That most sensitive, most delicate of instruments -- the mind of a little child!

- Henry Handel Richardson