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You should not be discouraged; one doe not die of a cold,

You should not be discouraged; one doe not die of a cold," the priest said to the bishop. The old man smiled. "I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. - Willa Cather Quotes

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

American Author

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. - Willa Cather Quotes

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

American Author Art

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. - Willa Cather Quotes

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

American Author Country

In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever. - Willa Cather Quotes

In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.

Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values. - Willa Cather Quotes

Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.

Business Writers And Writing

She heard him give his name, and came forward holding out her hand.

She heard him give his name, and came forward holding out her hand. "Is it you, indeed, Professor Wilson?"

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. - Willa Cather Quotes

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

American Author

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. - Willa Cather Quotes

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

American Author

Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count. - Willa Cather Quotes

Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count.

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