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Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "Look bravely up into the sky, And be content with knowing That God wished for a buttercup Just here, where you are growing."

Look bravely up into the sky, And be content with knowing That God wished for a buttercup Just here, where you are growing.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles."

My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.




Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white."

A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair."

The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.




Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed."

I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight."

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



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle."

When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.




Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better."

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness."

In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world."

You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of."

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man."

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




Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "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."

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.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am."

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "Write it as it is, don't try to make it like this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way-you will have to make a way of your own."

Write it as it is, don't try to make it like this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way-you will have to make a way of your own.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses."

It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "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."

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.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women."

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



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair."

The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to."

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



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature."

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "Imagination is the only true thing in the world!"

Imagination is the only true thing in the world!



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "What's everybody's business is nobody's business."

What's everybody's business is nobody's business.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "Who was it said that you never get to a place until a day after you come, nor leave it until a day after you go?"

Who was it said that you never get to a place until a day after you come, nor leave it until a day after you go?



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence."

It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger."

Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "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."

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.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "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."

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.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "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."

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.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!"

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



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "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."

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.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "my friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news."

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



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "Wrecked on the lee shore of age."

Wrecked on the lee shore of age.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't."

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



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em."

Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!"

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



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes."

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



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "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."

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.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end."

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



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "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."

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.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "A lean sorrow is hardest to bear."

A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, - a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it."

Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, - a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!"

Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "T'ain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes."

T'ain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "A harbor even if it is a little harbor is a good thing.... It takes something from the world and has something to give in return."

A harbor even if it is a little harbor is a good thing.... It takes something from the world and has something to give in return.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "The road was new to me as roads always are going back."

The road was new to me as roads always are going back.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "Yes'm old friends is always best 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of."

Yes'm old friends is always best 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world."

Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.



Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes: "I couldn't help thinkin' if she was as far out o' town as she was out o' tune, she wouldn't get back in a day."

I couldn't help thinkin' if she was as far out o' town as she was out o' tune, she wouldn't get back in a day.