Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn Quotes

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Imperial Self beyond self that I call my soul,
Climb up into the crow's-nest:
Look out over the changing ocean of my life
And shout down to me whither to change my course.

Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn

I wish more and more that health were studied half as much as disease is. Why, with all the endowment of research against cancer is no study made of those who are free from cancer? Why not inquire what foods they eat, what habits of body and mind they cultivate? And why never study animals in health and natural surroundings? Why always sickened and in an environment of strangeness and artificiality?

Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn

'The unfit die: the fit both live and thrive.'
Alas, who say so? — They who do survive.

Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn

Blaze the mountains in the windless autumn,
Frost-clear, blue-nooned, apple-ripening days.

Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn

The golf links lie so near the mill
That almost every day
The laboring children can look out
And see the men at play.

Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn

Shall I not bless the middle years?
Not I for youth repine.

Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn