So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end. 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 flowersummercountry 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 stronggivingworld 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 realitypeoplethinking 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-whiteinterestingthinking 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 wrinkleschildhoodage You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world. Sarah Orne Jewett writingquietworld 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 stealingmenworld 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 givenregretsecret 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 writingtryingway Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. Sarah Orne Jewett readingmemorableinspirational The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight. Sarah Orne Jewett blossomingsightsun The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair. Sarah Orne Jewett true-friendgrowthfriendship 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 imaginationsightsound Look bravely up into the sky, Sarah Orne Jewett knowingskylooks The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man. Sarah Orne Jewett comfortlittlesmen 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 catlonglooks 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 rootshistorypast You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to. Sarah Orne Jewett motherlongchildren 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 secretforeverpeople 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-lovegrowthsight
