Sarah Josepha Hale Short Quotes

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The engrossing pursuit of Americans is wealth.

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Next to genius, is the power
Of feeling where true genius lies.

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

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The burning soul, the burden'd mind,
In books alone companions find.

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

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

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What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!

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There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

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Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

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What matter though the scorn of fools be given
If the path follow'd lead us on to heaven!

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Rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

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

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There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.

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Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.

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It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

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There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.

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Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow,
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go.

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

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

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And you each gentle animal
In confidence may bind,
And make them follow at your call,
If you are always kind.

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Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.

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Many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.

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Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome;
The good, the true, the tender - these form the wealth of home.

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Do not, as you value the health and happiness of those who sit at your table, place before them hot leavened bread or biscuit.

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This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.

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