Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes
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It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.
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we have these instincts which defy all our wisdom and for which we never can frame any laws. ... They are powers which are imperfectly developed in this life, but one cannot help the thought that the mystery of this world may be the commonplace of the next.
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The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight.
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There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.
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A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.
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I've got 's much feelin' as the next one, but when folks drives in their spiggits and wants to draw a bucketful o' compassion every day right straight along, there does come times when it seems as if the bar'l was getting low.
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A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.
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It is a splendid thing to have the use of any gift of God. It isn't for us to choose again, or wonder and dispute, but just work in our own places, and leave the rest to God.
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It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.
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There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased to call thought and character.
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Write it as it is, don't try to make it like this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way-you will have to make a way of your own.
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The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.
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Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, - a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.
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Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It was a return to happiness.
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It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world.
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You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to.
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God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.
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The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.
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So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.
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Such a nice day - out all day up in the Carter Notch direction, trout-fishing, with the long drive there and the long drive home again in time for supper. It was a lovely brook and I caught seven good trout and one small one - which eight trout-persons you should have for your breakfast if only you were near enough. It was not alone the fishing, but the delightful loneliness and being out of doors.
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Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.
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Imagination is the only true thing in the world!
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Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
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Look bravely up into the sky, And be content with knowing That God wished for a buttercup Just here, where you are growing.
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In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.
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In these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old folks, they pray for the advantage o' bein' a little different.
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the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!
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To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit or cowardice or mockery choosing another; to trust Him for our strength and fitness as the flowers do, simply giving ourselves back to Him in grateful service,—this is to keep the laws that give us the freedom of the city in which there is no longer any night of bewilderment or ignorance or uncertainty.
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My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways.
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A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.
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