Fenimore Cooper Quotes
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Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity.
— Susan Fenimore Cooper
Tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.
— James Fenimore Cooper
Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?
— James Fenimore Cooper
It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.
— James Fenimore Cooper
Where are the blossoms of those summers!-fallen, one by one: so all of my family departed, each in his turn, to the land of the spirits.
— James Fenimore Cooper
happy hunting-grounds
— James Fenimore Cooper
We live in a world of endless transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true.
— James Fenimore Cooper
And am I answerable that thoughtless and unprincipled men exist whose shades of contenance may resemble mine?
— James Fenimore Cooper
For flowers that will bloom in a garden will die on a heath ...
— James Fenimore Cooper
You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die!
— James Fenimore Cooper
...nothing that crawls the earth is for my sport.
— James Fenimore Cooper
Nothing is easier to us who pass our time in the great school of Providence than to l'arn its lessons.
— James Fenimore Cooper
Come, friend; you are welcome, though your notions are a little blinded with reading too many books.
— James Fenimore Cooper
A man without conscience is but a poor creature ...
— James Fenimore Cooper
I too can play the madman, the fool, the hero; in short, any or everything to rescue her I love.
— James Fenimore Cooper
It should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed.
— James Fenimore Cooper
Even the robin and the martin come back, year after year, to their old nests; shall a woman be less true hearted than a bird?
— James Fenimore Cooper
Else would my scalp long since have been drying in a Mingo wigwam.
— James Fenimore Cooper
Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.
— James Fenimore Cooper
A thing which is of no moment itself may be made of importance in the way of competition.
— James Fenimore Cooper
They linger yet, Avengers of their native land." - Gray
— James Fenimore Cooper
Has dropped into the river, said Hurry, after looking carefully along
— James Fenimore Cooper
Patience is the greatest of virtues in a woodsman.
— James Fenimore Cooper
I care not for your envy, or your hypocrisy, or even for your human nature.
— James Fenimore Cooper
...that dog is more to be trusted than many a Christian man; for he never forgets a friend, and loves the hand that gives him bread.
— James Fenimore Cooper
Life is sweet, even to the aged; and, for that matter, I've known some that seemed to set much store by it when it got to be of the least value.
— James Fenimore Cooper
Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.
— James Fenimore Cooper
Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!
— James Fenimore Cooper
When the colony's laws, or even the King's laws, run ag'in the laws of God, they get to be onlawful, and ought not to be obeyed.
— James Fenimore Cooper
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
— James Fenimore Cooper
...the Evil Spirit delights more to dwell in an artful body, than in one that has no cunning to work upon.
— James Fenimore Cooper
...every period of life has its necessities, and at forty-seven it's just as well to trust a little to the head.
— James Fenimore Cooper
We are all human, and all do wrong.
— James Fenimore Cooper
Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.
— James Fenimore Cooper
The deer that goes too often to the lick meets the hunter at last!
— James Fenimore Cooper
Then he was wrong, Hurry; very wrong. A man can enjoy plunder peaceably nowhere.
— James Fenimore Cooper
The woods are but the ears of the Almighty, the air is his breath, and the light of the sun is little more than a glance of his eye.
— James Fenimore Cooper
It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!
— James Fenimore Cooper
It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.
— James Fenimore Cooper