James Thomas Fields Quotes

• Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come in contact with it.

  James Thomas Fields

  Summer, Heart, Sunshine

  James Thomas Fields (1881). “Underbrush”

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• What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle.

  James Thomas Fields

  Age, Youth, Produce

  James Thomas Fields (1881). “Underbrush”

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• How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers, It transmutes aliens into trusting friends, And gives its owner passport round the globe.

  James Thomas Fields

  Sweet, Flower, Men

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• Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends.

  James Thomas Fields

  Kindness, Giving, World

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• Oh, to be home again, home again, home again!
  Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill!

  James Thomas Fields

  Home, Apples, Mills

  "In a strange Land". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• Is n't God upon the ocean Just the same as on the land?

  James Thomas Fields

  Ocean, Land

  James Thomas Fields (1849). “Poems”, p.34

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• The man who tells me an indelicate story does me an injury.

  James Thomas Fields

  Humor, Men, Doe

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• A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm.

  James Thomas Fields

  Blessing, Journey, Doors

  James Thomas Fields, “The Lucky Horseshoe”

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• Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch, The owl very gravely got down from his perch, Walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic (Who thought he was stuffed) with a glance analytic.

  James Thomas Fields

  Owl, Fault Finding, Faults

  James Thomas Fields, “The Owl-Critic”

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• Let heaven-eyed Prudence battle with Desire.

  James Thomas Fields

  Heaven, Desire, Battle

  James Thomas Fields (1849). “Poems”, p.16

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