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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

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

Tact is after all a kind of mind-reading. — 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

The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man. — 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

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

Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool! — Sarah Orne Jewett

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

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

Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger. — Sarah Orne Jewett

So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end. — Sarah Orne Jewett

What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households. — 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

be brisk, be splendid, and be public. — Sarah Orne Jewett

Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees! — Sarah Orne Jewett

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back. — 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

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

Wrecked on the lee shore of age. — 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

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

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

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

My friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news. — Sarah Orne Jewett