Julia McNair Wright Quotes

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• What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you!

  Julia McNair Wright

  Noble, Without You, Within You

  Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

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• ... there can be no real beauty without neatness and order.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Real, Order, Real Beauty

  Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

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• it is always easier to see the beginning from the end, than the end from the beginning.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Easier, Ends, Beginnings And Endings

  Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

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• Every home has its influences, for good or evil, upon humanity at large.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Family, Home, Evil

  Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

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• Nothing so breaks the spirit as a load of debt.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Debt, Spirit, Break

  Julia McNair Wright (1895). “Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household”

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• fully half of Household miseries arise from a lack of order.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Home, Order, Half

  Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

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• the less you respect, the less respectable you are; the less you honor, the less in you is to be honored. There are those 'whom not to know argues one's self unknown,' so if you have no reverence in a world where there is so much that is noble and venerable, then there will be something terrible lacking in your own character.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Appreciation, Character, Self

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• The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Past, Echoes, Mind

  Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

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• Home is the place where true politeness tells.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Home, Politeness

  Julia McNair Wright (1895). “Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household”

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• disorder is the slowest worker in the universe.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Order, Disorder, Workers

  Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

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• true courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Kindness, Real, Courtesy

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• simplicity is a thing beautiful in itself, like clear light.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Beautiful, Light, Simplicity

  Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

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• as all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Sleep, Brain, Needs

  Julia McNair Wright (1895). “Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household”

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• Plenty of sunshine is the very wine of life.

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  Wine, Sunshine, Sun

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• If people could only be taught that economy is a thing of littles and of individuals, and of every day, and not a thing of masses and of spasmodic efforts, then a true idea would begin to tell upon the habits of our domestic life, for the thrift and thriving of the individual is the thrift and thriving of the nation.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Ideas, People, Effort

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• I don't lose an hour in the morning and expect to make it up in the evening; night is the wrong end of the day to borrow from.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Time, Morning, Night

  Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

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• Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years.

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  Years, Good Man, Moments

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• little every-day courtesies are called the small change of life; but we should be badly off in trade if we had no small change, and must always deal with twenty-dollar bills; while the small change mounts up to the great sum in a lifetime.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Life Changing, Small Changes, Littles

  Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

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• The grossest form of this injury of the body to ornament it, is in tattooing. Next, the piercing the ear all around its rim, piercing the nose and the lips to introduce rings or bars of jewelry.

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  Next, Lips, Ornaments

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• Books form in us habits of thought which shall live forever with us.

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  Book, Forever, Habit

  Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

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• What is true of the individual will be true of the whole family; what is true of the family will be true of the community, and of the state.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Community, Individual, States

  Julia McNair Wright (1895). “Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household”

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• We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others break down: we think we feel the springs of life stronger in us.

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  Spring, Thinking, Stronger

  Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

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• Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Perfection, Effort, Habit

  Julia McNair Wright (1895). “Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household”

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• A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Family, Happiness, Home

  Julia McNair Wright (1895). “Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household”

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• Half a loaf is better than no bread.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Gratitude, Bread, Half

  Julia McNair Wright (1895). “Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household”

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