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Alice Duer Miller Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the american poet Alice Duer Miller on topics like contempt, touch, defense

  • Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

    — Alice Duer Miller on contempt
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  • Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

    — Alice Duer Miller on forgiveness
    1
  • When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.

    — Alice Duer Miller on busy
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  • If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

    — Alice Duer Miller on friendship
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  • Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

    — Alice Duer Miller on broken
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  • It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic coaching for his scholastic difficulties.

    — Alice Duer Miller on education
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  • A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

    — Alice Duer Miller on child
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  • About Alice Duer Miller

    Name Alice Duer Miller
    Quotes 7 quotations
    Nationality American
    Profession Poet
    Birthday October 16
    Top topics contempt, touch, defense, despised, weak

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