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Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.

I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.

You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to.

Look bravely up into the sky,
And be content with knowing
That God wished for a buttercup
Just here, where you are growing.

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?

Imagination is the only true thing in the world!

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.

God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.

The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.

There's more women likes to be loved than there is of those that loves.

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.

Tact is after all a kind of mind-reading.

In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

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

The mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!

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.

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

A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

be brisk, be splendid, and be public.

Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!

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

There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.

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.

Wrecked on the lee shore of age.

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

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.

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.

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.

My friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news.