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Alice Duer Miller quotes

American Poet July 28, 1874 – August 22, 1942

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People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer. Alice Duer Miller
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosphy like art... It has no survival value; rahter it is one of those things that give valuse to survival. Alice Duer Miller
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
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
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
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
Alice Duer Miller quote: "It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublime. When..."
It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublime. When you're treated as incompetents three-quarters of the time. Alice Duer Miller
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
Alice Duer Miller quote: "Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on."
Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on. Alice Duer Miller
People who deal in truth themselves recognize it when they hear it, just as people who deal in diamonds recognize a real stone when they see it. Alice Duer Miller
Alice Duer Miller quote: "Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's..."
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. Alice Duer Miller
Alice Duer Miller quote: "Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and..."
Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it. Alice Duer Miller

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