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 More Quotes by Sarah Orne Jewett More Quotes From Sarah Orne Jewett This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders. Sarah Orne Jewett flower summer country A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return. Sarah Orne Jewett strong giving world 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 reality people thinking 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 black-and-white interesting thinking 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 wrinkles childhood age You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world. Sarah Orne Jewett writing quiet world 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 stealing men world 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 given regret secret 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 writing trying way Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. Sarah Orne Jewett reading memorable inspirational The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight. Sarah Orne Jewett blossoming sight sun The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair. Sarah Orne Jewett true-friend growth friendship 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 imagination sight sound Look bravely up into the sky, Sarah Orne Jewett knowing sky looks The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man. Sarah Orne Jewett comfort littles men 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 cat long looks It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out. Sarah Orne Jewett roots history past You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to. Sarah Orne Jewett mother long children 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 secret forever people 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 falling-in-love growth sight
