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There was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
She is the best-dressed woman in the county, and the best looking," said Mrs. Bates, "and that's all there is to her.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?
— Gene Stratton-Porter
Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
Down the footpath the two went through the perfect morning, the love of God and all nature in their hearts.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
Not!' This is a house of worship. The Lord may be drawing her in His own way. It is for us to help Him by being kind and making her welcome.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
Knowing things will not harm you. Doing them is a different matter. What you know will be a protection. What you do ruins - if it is wrong.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
I loved words that filled your mouth, and sounded as if you were used to books.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
Reason may be depended upon to keep its balance when God gives the surcease of tears in time of trouble.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora.
"Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy ... — Gene Stratton-Porter
"Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy ... — Gene Stratton-Porter
You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
I was born a sweater, I shall just go on sweating until I die; I refuse to begin perspiring at my time of life." "You
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It takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?
— Gene Stratton-Porter
Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
Maybe after all it's a good thing to tell people about their meanness and give them a stirring up once in a while.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
You should be more than an imitator. You must be a creator!" Donald
— Gene Stratton-Porter
The seasons run with swift feet.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
That spring I decided if school didn't stop pretty soon, I'd run away again, and I didn't in the least care what they did to me.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
He only knew that he had lived up to his best impulse, and that is all any one can do.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
Ance a man-child has beaten his way to life under the heart of a woman, she is mither to all men, for the hearts of mithers are everywhere the same.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
We know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
Comstock, but I left a wrong impression with you. I don't want
— Gene Stratton-Porter
Friends are plenty when the purse is full.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
Nature always levies her tribute.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
The Cardinal ... It was as if a pulsing heart of flame passed by when he came winging through the orchard.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
Turn her loose out of doors; give her good books, and leave her alone. You won't be disappointed in the woman who evolves.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception
— Gene Stratton-Porter
Mother was little but she was mighty.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
You people are not splitting wood, called Elnora.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
No one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
Money was their God; work their religion ...
— Gene Stratton-Porter