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Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay was an individual active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The details of her profession and life are currently unclear, and her activities during that time may have had an impact on her community or field.

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Soul Moments Worry Combat

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“Worry is spiritual nearsightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value.”

Way Littles Spiritual Values Worry Little Things Magnifying

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“Let us assume nothing, and we shall not be moritifed.”

Assuming Assume Nothing

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“It is not our failures that distress us so much as our idiocies.”

Distress Embarrassment Idiocy

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“time spent in being interrupted is not time lost. ... How do we know but that the interruption we snarl at is the most blessed thing that has come to us in long days?”

Knows Long Lost Blessed Interrupted Interruptions Time Spent Long Day

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“Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?”

Life Years May Whole Life Is Letting Go Essentials

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“Whatever we really are, that let us be, in all fearlessness. Whatever we are not, that let us cease striving to be.”

Strive Cease Fearlessness

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“Value work. But not any kind of work. Ask yourself "Is the work vital, strengthening my own character, or inspiring others, or helping the world?".”

World Kind Character Helping Values Asks My Own Strengthening Inspiring Others

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“It costs to be a friend or to have a friend. There is nothing else in life except motherhood that costs so much. It not only costs time, affection, patience, love, but sometimes a man must even lay down his life for his friends. There is no true friendship without self-abnegation, self-sacrifice.”

Men Self Sometimes Sacrifice Cost Lays Affection Motherhood True Friend True Friendship Self Sacrifice Abnegation Patience Love

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“Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not "how much time do we have?" The question is "what shall we do with it?"”

Use Life Is Time Wise Being Wise Use Of Time

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Born: 1864
Died: 1948
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