Mary Mapes Dodge Quotes

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Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.

Mary Mapes Dodge
Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky,
It turns and turns to say "Good-by!
Good-by, dear clouds, so cool and gray!"
Then lightly travels on its way.

Mary Mapes Dodge
I'm as true a Protestant, in sooth, as any fine lady that walks into church, but it's not wrong to turn sometimes to the good St. Nicholas.

Mary Mapes Dodge
Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago....

Mary Mapes Dodge
For ever and ever, my darling, yes—
Goodness and love are undying;
Only the troubles and cares of earth
Are winged from the first for flying.
Our way we plough
In the furrow "now;"
But after the tilling and growing the sheaf;
Soil for the root, but the sun for the leaf—
And God keepeth watch forever.

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But when a snowflake, brave and meek,
Lights on a rosy maiden's cheek,
It starts—"How warm and soft the day!"
"'T is summer!" and it melts away.

Mary Mapes Dodge
But I believe that God is overhead
And as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.

Mary Mapes Dodge
Welcome Christmas! heel and toe,
Come and fill us ere you go!

Mary Mapes Dodge
Ten years dropped from a man's life are no small loss; ten years of manhood, of household happiness and care; ten years of honest labor, of conscious enjoyment of sunshine and outdoor beauty; ten years of grateful life--one day looking forward to all this; the next, waking to find them passed, and a blank.

Mary Mapes Dodge
Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be;
Yet oh, how dear it is to us, this life we live and see!

Mary Mapes Dodge