Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes

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Such a nice day - out all day up in the Carter Notch direction, trout-fishing, with the long drive there and the long drive home again in time for supper. It was a lovely brook and I caught seven good trout and one small one - which eight trout-persons you should have for your breakfast if only you were near enough. It was not alone the fishing, but the delightful loneliness and being out of doors.

Sarah Orne Jewett
My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways.

Sarah Orne Jewett
It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

Sarah Orne Jewett
Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It was a return to happiness.

Sarah Orne Jewett
She had no equal in sickness, and knew how to brew every old-fashioned dose and to make every variety of herb-tea, and when her nursing was put to an end by her patient's death, she was commander-in-chief at the funeral.

Sarah Orne Jewett
Who was it said that you never get to a place until a day after you come, nor leave it until a day after you go?

Sarah Orne Jewett
She did not seem to mind talking about the troubles of her married life any more than a soldier minds telling the story of his campaigns, and dwells with pride on the worst battle of all.

Sarah Orne Jewett
The mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!

Sarah Orne Jewett
In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

Sarah Orne Jewett
The warm sun kissed the earth
To consecrate thy birth,
And from his close embrace
Thy radiant face
Sprang into sight,
A blossoming delight.

Sarah Orne Jewett
A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.

Sarah Orne Jewett
I couldn't help thinkin' if she was as far out o' town as she was out o' tune, she wouldn't get back in a day.

Sarah Orne Jewett
I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.

Sarah Orne Jewett
It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.

Sarah Orne Jewett
Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, — a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.

Sarah Orne Jewett
It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.

Sarah Orne Jewett
We were standing where there was a fine view of the harbor and its long stretches of shore all covered by the great army of the pointed firs, darkly cloaked and standing as if they waited to embark. As we looked far seaward among the outer islands, the trees seemed to march seaward still, going steadily over the heights and down to the water's edge.

Sarah Orne Jewett
The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.

Sarah Orne Jewett
You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to.

Sarah Orne Jewett
't ain't worth while to wear a day all out before it comes.

Sarah Orne Jewett
'Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

Sarah Orne Jewett
To work in silence and with all one's heart, that is the writer's lot; he is the only artist who must be solitary and yet needs the widest outlook on the world.

Sarah Orne Jewett
My friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news.

Sarah Orne Jewett
Your patience may have long to wait,
Whether in little things or great,
But all good luck, you soon will learn,
Must come to those who nobly earn.
Who hunts the hay-field over
Will find the four-leaved clover.

Sarah Orne Jewett
So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.

Sarah Orne Jewett