Gene Stratton-Porter Quotes

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But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora. "Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy....

Gene Stratton-Porter
When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.

Gene Stratton-Porter
There was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

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Now what is a guest? A thing of a day! A person who disturbs your routine and interferes with important concerns. Why should any one be grateful for company? Why should time and money be lavished on visitors? They come. You overwork yourself. They go. You are glad of it. You return the visit, because it's the only way to have back at them...

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I don't so much mind the falling, but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on.

Gene Stratton-Porter
It takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.

Gene Stratton-Porter
No one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.

Gene Stratton-Porter
I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One cannot change to the other any more than that same old leopard can change its spots. After a man tells a woman the first untruth of that sort, the others come piling thick, fast, and mountain high.

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If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

Gene Stratton-Porter
The occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing.

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Every intoxicating delight of early spring was in the air. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume and the crisp, fresh odor of unfolding leaves.

Gene Stratton-Porter
What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?

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Is he well educated?" "Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day of his life, same as father. He says it is all rot about 'finishing' your education. You never do. You learn more important things each day...

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In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

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The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

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Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.

Gene Stratton-Porter
Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?

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Sometimes it seems to me that the more we get hurt in this world the decenter it makes us.

Gene Stratton-Porter
I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.

Gene Stratton-Porter
It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.

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The world is full of happy people, but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get into the papers.

Gene Stratton-Porter
I never knew Eileen to be honest about anything in all her life unless the truth served her better than an evasion.

Gene Stratton-Porter
To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.

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We never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine piece of furniture...

Gene Stratton-Porter
The friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed;... if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain.

Gene Stratton-Porter
Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.

Gene Stratton-Porter