Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Quotes

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In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Broadly speaking, nervous women may be divided into two classes — those who are really nervous, and those who imagine themselves to be so.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on a Southern highway, and a friend driving in a pony carriage passed me, stopped and said, "Have you heard that Charles Dickens is dead?" It was as if I had been robbed of one of my dearest friends.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Out of the chill and the shadow,
Into the thrill and the shine;
Out of the death and the famine,
Into the fullness divine.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
The people who dream are very often the people who see, and dreaming and seeing precede doing.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
I think that the Almighty gave springtime to a tired world so that its peoples might know rest. I think that He gave it to a troubled world so that the world's inhabitants might find peace. I think He gave it to a discouraged world so that hope and faith might be reborn!

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
It isn't the thing you do, Dear
It's the thing you leave undone
Which gives you a bit of a heartache
At the setting of the sun.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Mind does dominate body. We are superior to the house in which we dwell.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Love is like fire, a dangerous thing to play with, although the best of friends and the most loyal of servants when rightly handled.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Fifteen takes its perplexities very seriously and grieves without restraint over its sorrows.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Never yet was a springtime,
Late though lingered the snow,
That the sap stirred not at the whisper
Of the southwind, sweet and low;
Never yet was a springtime
When the buds forgot to blow.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Let every birthday be a festival, a time when the gladness of the house finds expression in flowers, in gifts, in a little fête. Never should a birthday be passed over without note, or as if it were a common day, never should it cease to be a garlanded milestone in the road of life.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
I know—yet my arms are empty,
That fondly folded seven,
And the mother heart within me
Is almost starved for heaven.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Memory is a trustworthy servant as long as it is made to serve.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Love turns all the wheels of human industry, is the motive power under the world's machinery, makes worthwhile every enterprise on the earth, is coequal with life, outlasts death, and reaches onward into heaven.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster