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Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes



Quotes by Sarah Orne Jewett - (8 quotes)

Sarah Orne Jewett - From the Activity category:

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)

Sarah Orne Jewett - From the Aging category:

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)

Sarah Orne Jewett - From the Communication category:

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. (Sarah Orne Jewett)

Sarah Orne Jewett - From the Friendship category:

-in 1896...
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)

Sarah Orne Jewett - From the Gender category:

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

Sarah Orne Jewett - From the Journey category:

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back. (Sarah Orne Jewett)

Sarah Orne Jewett - From the Worry category:

'Taint't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes. (Sarah Orne Jewett)

Sarah Orne Jewett - From the Writing category:

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)