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Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
Look bravely up into the sky,
And be content with knowing
That God wished for a buttercup
Just here, where you are growing. — Sarah Orne Jewett
And be content with knowing
That God wished for a buttercup
Just here, where you are growing. — Sarah Orne Jewett
Who was it said that you never get to a place until a day after you come, nor leave it until a day after you go?
— Sarah Orne Jewett
Imagination is the only true thing in the world!
— Sarah Orne Jewett
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.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
There's more women likes to be loved than there is of those that loves.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
There is all the pleasure that one can have in golddigging in finding one's hopes satisfied in the riches of a good hill of potatoes.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
He has not truly lived who has not lived for others, in sympathy and in harmony with his fellows.
— Percy Jewett Burrell
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.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
Tact is after all a kind of mind-reading.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one's self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
of body, tall Negroes from Africa, small wizen-faced Jews,
— Eleanore M. Jewett
Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!
— Sarah Orne Jewett
Our very genesis was not really a beginning after all, but indeed the product of a personality-Father Mills.
— Percy Jewett Burrell
A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
My friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
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.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
This is a very small world; we are all within hail of each other. I dare say when we get to Heaven there will not be a stranger to make friends with.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
Wrecked on the lee shore of age.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
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.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!
— Sarah Orne Jewett
be brisk, be splendid, and be public.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
I couldn't help thinkin' if she was as far out o' town as she was out o' tune, she wouldn't get back in a day.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
The mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!
— Sarah Orne Jewett
Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger.
— Sarah Orne Jewett