Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes
Top 38 wise famous quotes and sayings by Sarah Orne Jewett
Sarah Orne Jewett Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.
Look bravely up into the sky,
And be content with knowing
That God wished for a buttercup
Just here, where you are growing.
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?
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.
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.
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.
In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.