Susanna Moodie Quotes

• Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

  Susanna Moodie

  Encouraging, Dark, Clouds

  Susanna Moodie (2010). “Life in the Clearings versus the Bush”, p.11, New Canadian Library

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• The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.

  Susanna Moodie

  Eye, People, Political

  Susanna Moodie, John Wedderburn Dunbar Moodie (1968). “The Victoria magazine, 1847-1848”

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• I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.

  Susanna Moodie

  Husband, Lying, Mistress

  Susanna Moodie (1913). “Roughing It in the Bush, or Life in Canada”, p.193, Hayes Barton Press

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• The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen--he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus of overpopulous European countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtesy.

  Susanna Moodie

  Country, Native American, Men

  Susanna Moodie (1852). “Roughing it in the Bush: Or, Life in Canada”, p.11, London : R. Bentley

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• Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

  Susanna Moodie

  Home, Chickens, Curse

  Susanna Moodie (2011). “Roughing it in the Bush: Or, Life in Canada”, p.158, Cambridge University Press

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• When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

  Susanna Moodie

  Change

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• What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds -- this faithful witness against us for good or evil.

  Susanna Moodie

  Memories, Evil, Faithful

  Susanna Moodie (1853). “Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush”, p.304, London : R. Bentley

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• Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.

  Susanna Moodie

  Liars, Lying, Pride

  Susanna Moodie (1853). “Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush”, p.76, London : R. Bentley

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• Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.

  Susanna Moodie

  Children, Party, Character

  Susanna Moodie (2010). “Life in the Clearings versus the Bush”, p.356, New Canadian Library

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