Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman Quotes

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She's just been pointed one way all her life, and going one way, and now she's getting nearer the end of the road, she's pointed sharper and she's going faster.

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
The Cat was a creature of absolute convictions, and his faith in his deductions never varied.

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
He was filled with that great peace of possession which causes a man to feel that he is safe from the ills of life.

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Nobility of character manifests itself at loop-holes when it is not provided with large doors.

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
It took her a long time to prepare her tea; but when ready it was set forth with as much grace as if she had been a veritable guest to her own self.

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Any deviation from the ordinary course of life in this quiet town was enough to stop all progress in it.

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Every builder builds somewhat for unknown purposes, and is in a measure a prophet.

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Sometimes duties act on the soul like weeds on a flower. They crowd it out.

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
When a man or a woman holds fast to youth, even if successfully, there is something of the pitiful and the tragic involved. It is the everlasting struggle of the soul to retain the joy of earth, whose fleeing distinguishes it from heaven, and whose retention is not accomplished without an inner knowledge of its futility.

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman