Jessie Belle Rittenhouse Quotes

• I bargained with Life for a penny, and Life would pay no more. However I begged at the evening when I counted my scanty store. For Life is a just employer, he gives you what you ask. But once you have set the wages, why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menial's hire, only to learn, dismayed, that any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid.

  Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

  Inspirational, Positive Thinking, Giving

  Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1939). “The moving tide: new and selected lyrics by Jessie B. Rittenhouse...”

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• My debt to you, Belovèd,
  Is one I cannot pay
  In any coin of any realm
  On any reckoning day.

  Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

  Love, Coins, Debt

  Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1939). “The moving tide: new and selected lyrics by Jessie B. Rittenhouse...”

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• ... fain would I turn back the clock and devote to French or some other language the hours I spent upon algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, of which not one principle remains with me. Stay! There is one theorem painfully drummed into my head which seems to have inhabited some corner of my brain since that early time: "The square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides!" There it sticks, but what of it, ye gods, what of it?

  Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

  Squares, Two Sides, Brain

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• I bargained with Life for a penny,
  And Life would pay no more,
  However I begged at evening
  When I counted my scanty store.

  Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

  Life, Pay, Pennies

  Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1918). “The Door of Dreams”

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• I worked for a menial's hire,
  Only to learn, dismayed,
  That any wage I had asked of Life,
  Life would have paid.

  Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

  Inspirational, Life, Think And Grow Rich

  Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1918). “The Door of Dreams”

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