Sarah Orne Jewett - People Quotes

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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 seemed as if all the clocks in Deephaven, and all the people with them, had stopped years ago, and the people had been doing over and over what they had been busy about during the last week of their unambitious progress.

Sarah Orne Jewett

It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.

Sarah Orne Jewett