Sarah Josepha Hale Quotes

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A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.

Sarah Josepha Hale
Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

Sarah Josepha Hale
Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.

Sarah Josepha Hale
While they kept the Sabbath day with pharisaical strictness, the other six days were their own. They strove for earth and sighed for heaven, and failed of enjoyment in the pursuit of either.

Sarah Josepha Hale
She had the habit into which your poor conversationalists usually fall, namely, asking questions. I know nothing more disagreeable that does not absolutely shock one's principles, than to be subjected to the society of a questioner.

Sarah Josepha Hale
It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

Sarah Josepha Hale
Of all kinds of knowledge, I consider antiquarian lore as the most unwomanly. It must be gained by so much research, and explained by such learned terms, and defended by so many arguments;... heaven defend me from ever meeting with that anomaly in our species — an antiquarian without a beard.

Sarah Josepha Hale
Why is it that water, so monotonous in its characteristics, should nevertheless possess a charm for every mind? I believe it is chiefly because it bears the impress of the Creator, which we feel neither the power of time or of man can efface or alter.

Sarah Josepha Hale
There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.'

Sarah Josepha Hale
A day of bliss is quickly told,
A thousand would not make us old
As one of sorrow doth —
It is by cares, by woes and tears,
We round the sum of human years —.

Sarah Josepha Hale
What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households.

Sarah Josepha Hale
There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.

Sarah Josepha Hale
Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature — art has quite a different price.

Sarah Josepha Hale
There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always associated with mirth and rejoicing is at hand.

Sarah Josepha Hale
Self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect, is the essential of contentment and happiness.

Sarah Josepha Hale
The engrossing pursuit of Americans is wealth.

Sarah Josepha Hale
What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

Sarah Josepha Hale