Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind. Mary Ellen Chase More Quotes by Mary Ellen Chase More Quotes From Mary Ellen Chase It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person - beguiled, enchanted. Mary Ellen Chase change morning inspirational Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make. Mary Ellen Chase hope men moving There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. Mary Ellen Chase reading book children Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them. Mary Ellen Chase diversity preparation imagination Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for. Mary Ellen Chase understanding suffering ideas To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss. Mary Ellen Chase regret loss long The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities. Mary Ellen Chase issues passion real Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm. Mary Ellen Chase college teaching teacher Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts. Mary Ellen Chase sake work father Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. Mary Ellen Chase state date christmas mind children
