Marietta Holley Quotes

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Two pardners may set side by side, and yet worlds lay between 'em.

Marietta Holley
It was the face of an earnest noble woman, who had asked God what He wanted her to do, and then hadn't shirked out of doin' it. Who had gripped holt of life's plough, and hadn't looked back because the furrows turned over pretty hard, and the stumps was thick.

Marietta Holley
He ceased his remarks, and agin silence rained in the room.

Marietta Holley
It is enough to make anybody's blood bile in thier vains to think how different sin is looked upon in a man and woman. I say sin is sin, and you can't make goodness out of it by parsin' it in the masculine gender, no more'n you can by parsin' it in the feminine or neutral.

Marietta Holley
I took Josiah out to one side, and says I, 'Josiah Allen, if Tirzah Ann is to be brought up to think that marriage is the chief aim of her life, Thomas J. shall be brought up to think that marriage is his chief aim.' Says I, 'it looks just as flat in a woman, as it does in a man.'

Marietta Holley
I love to see folks use reason if they have got any...

Marietta Holley
You can't set down and stand up at the same time, each situation has its advantages, but you can't be in both places at once... it can't be did.

Marietta Holley
High trees cast long shadows. The happier and more blessed a woman's life is, the more duz she feel for them that are less blessed than she.

Marietta Holley
But I am a-eppisodin' and a-eppisodin' to a length and depth almost onprecedented and onheard of - and to resoom and go on.

Marietta Holley