Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes - Page 2

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• Such a nice day - out all day up in the Carter Notch direction, trout-fishing, with the long drive there and the long drive home again in time for supper. It was a lovely brook and I caught seven good trout and one small one - which eight trout-persons you should have for your breakfast if only you were near enough. It was not alone the fishing, but the delightful loneliness and being out of doors.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Nice, Loneliness, Home

  Sarah Orne Jewett (1911). “Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett”

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• It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world.

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  Sight, Imagination, Sound

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2005). “The Country of the Pointed Firs: And Selected Short Fiction”, Barnes & Noble

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• The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight.

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  Sight, Blossoming, Sun

  Sarah Orne Jewett (1999). “The Complete Poems of Sarah Orne Jewett”, Ironweed PressInc

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• we have these instincts which defy all our wisdom and for which we never can frame any laws. ... They are powers which are imperfectly developed in this life, but one cannot help the thought that the mystery of this world may be the commonplace of the next.

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  Law, World, May

  Sarah Orne Jewett, Richard Cary (1966). “Deephaven and Other Stories”, p.130, Rowman & Littlefield

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• My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways.

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  Daughter, Fathers Day, Country

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2005). “The Country of the Pointed Firs: And Selected Short Fiction”, Barnes & Noble

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• God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.

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  Men, Giving, Talent

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2008). “A Country Doctor”, p.221, Bantam Classics

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• There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.

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  Healing, Thinking, Sick

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.45, Sarah Orne Jewett

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• Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It was a return to happiness.

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  Happiness, Long, Return

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2009). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.204, Broadview Press

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• So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.

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  Eye, Aging, Natural

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.114, Sarah Orne Jewett

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• if you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago. ... you must write to the human heart, the great consciousness that all humanity goes to make up. Otherwise what might be strength in a writer is only crudeness, and what might be insight is only observation; sentimemnt falls to sentimentality - you can write about life, but never write life itself.

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  Fall, Writing, Heart

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• You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to.

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  Mother, Children, Long

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.31, Sarah Orne Jewett

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• Wrecked on the lee shore of age.

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  Age, Aging, Shore

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.25, Sarah Orne Jewett

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• Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

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  Worthwhile

  "The Country of the Pointed Firs". Book by Sarah Orne Jewett, Ch. 16, 1896.

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• A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.

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  Sorrow, Bears, Hardest

  Sarah Orne Jewett (1895). “The Life of Nancy”

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• There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased to call thought and character.

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  Education, Memories, School

  Sarah Orne Jewett (1911). “Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett”

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• In these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old folks, they pray for the advantage o' bein' a little different.

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  Cat, Different, Littles

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.56, Sarah Orne Jewett

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• There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.

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  Patience, Mistake, Men

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.78, Sarah Orne Jewett

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• The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.

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  Men, Comfort, Littles

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2009). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.52, Broadview Press

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• Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.

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  Past, Roots, Conversation

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.53, Sarah Orne Jewett

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• It is a splendid thing to have the use of any gift of God. It isn't for us to choose again, or wonder and dispute, but just work in our own places, and leave the rest to God.

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  Use, Wonder, Disputes

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• the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!

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  Death, Self, Waking

  Sarah Orne Jewett (1911). “Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett”

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• Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!

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  Fire, Tools, Sticks

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• Your patience may have long to wait,Whether in little things or great,But all good luck, you soon will learn,Must come to those who nobly earn.Who hunts the hay-field overWill find the four-leaved clover.

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  Good Luck, Long, Waiting

  Sarah Orne Jewett, “A Four-Leaved Clover”

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• my friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news.

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  Sea, News, Conversation

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.51, Sarah Orne Jewett

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• I've got 's much feelin' as the next one, but when folks drives in their spiggits and wants to draw a bucketful o' compassion every day right straight along, there does come times when it seems as if the bar'l was getting low.

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  Compassion, The Next One, Doe

  Sarah Orne Jewett (1892). “Country By-Ways”

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