Dorothy Canfield Fisher Quotes

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• A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Funny, Family, Mothers Day

  Her Son's Wife ch. 37 (1926)

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• It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Spiritual, Food, Evil

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• If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• ...there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe - but bored. Or you can care greatly, live greatly, until life breaks you on its wheel.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Two, Bored, Armor

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• Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Nursing, Thinking, Eggs

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• Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Library, Corn, Seeds

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• What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Heart

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• Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Mean, Fighting, Justice

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• One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Funny, Nice, Humorous

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Beauty, Responsibility, Modern

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”

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• The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Eye, Age, Fifteen

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1916). “Self-reliance: A Practical and Informal Discussion of Methods of Teaching Self-reliance, Initiative and Responsibility to Modern Children”

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• No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Vermont, Towns

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1971). “Four-square”, Ayer Company Pub

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• What is life, but one long risk?

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Long, Risk, What Is Life

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• Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction that without freedom human life is not worth living.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Passion, Emotional, Burning

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”

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• What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Stars, Ambition, Knows

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1997). “The Bedquilt and Other Stories”, p.29, University of Missouri Press

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• help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Growing, Helping, Positively

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1912). “A Montessori Mother”

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• there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Luck, No Such Thing As Luck, Persons

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Mark J. Madigan (1939). “Seasoned Timber”, p.297, UPNE

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• I never heard of anybody who admired the character of sheep. Even the gentlest human personalities in contact with them are annoyed by their lack of brains, courage and initiative, by their extraordinary ability to get themselves into uncomfortable or dangerous situations and then wait in inert helplessness for someone to rescue them.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Character, Dangerous Situations, Sheep

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• one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace-like railway stations and hotels. Our national tympanum is so deafened by that blare of sumptuousness that we have no ears for the still, small voice of beauty.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Beauty, Art, Voice

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”

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• Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  America, Vermont, Thrift

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• If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much of it - why - there might be enough to go around! There might be enough to solve our alarming human problems, to put an end to poverty, to stop waging wars.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Children, War, Patents

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”

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• The richness and endless variety of human relationships ... that's what authors, even the finest and greatest, only succeed in hinting at. It's a hopeless business, like trying to dip up the ocean with a tea-spoon.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Ocean, Tea, Trying

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Mark J. Madigan (1993). “Keeping Fires Night and Day: Selected Letters of Dorothy Canfield Fisher”, p.94, University of Missouri Press

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• it was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY, we may be sure, capitalized in her mind, and denoting not sex but rank.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Sex, Men, Mind

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”

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• Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Strong, Hands, Strong Hands

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1926). “The Bent Twig”

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• There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Character, Nurse, Essentials

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