What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households. Sarah Orne Jewett More Quotes by Sarah Orne Jewett More Quotes From Sarah Orne Jewett 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 God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women. Sarah Orne Jewett talent giving men 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. Sarah Orne Jewett good-luck waiting long Wrecked on the lee shore of age. Sarah Orne Jewett shore aging age Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes. Sarah Orne Jewett worthwhile 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 hygiene mind years 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 fathers-day daughter country To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit or cowardice or mockery choosing another; to trust Him for our strength and fitness as the flowers do, simply giving ourselves back to Him in grateful service,—this is to keep the laws that give us the freedom of the city in which there is no longer any night of bewilderment or ignorance or uncertainty. Sarah Orne Jewett grateful flower ignorance 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 ems distance mother In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong. Sarah Orne Jewett regret cells secret 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 making-friends old-friends friendship 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 disputes use wonder What's everybody's business is nobody's business. Sarah Orne Jewett responsibility It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence. Sarah Orne Jewett silence grief world 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. Sarah Orne Jewett law may world So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end. Sarah Orne Jewett aging eye natural Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees! Sarah Orne Jewett only-love blind love-is Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger. Sarah Orne Jewett satisfaction feelings interesting There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't. Sarah Orne Jewett sick healing thinking 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 education memories school
