Sarah Orne Jewett Short Quotes

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What's everybody's business is nobody's business...

Sarah Orne Jewett
The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.

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

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

Sarah Orne Jewett
Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.

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

Sarah Orne Jewett
You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

Sarah Orne Jewett
'Tis a good deal more tryin' to be tied to folks you don't like than 'tis to be alone.

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
A man's house is really but his larger body, and expresses in a way his nature and character.

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
Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger.

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
There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.

Sarah Orne Jewett
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

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!

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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.

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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?

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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
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
She wore a fixed smile that wa'n't a smile; there wa'n't no light behind it, same's a lamp can't shine if it ain't lit.

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
"Step in some afternoon," he said, as affectionately as if I were a fellow-shipmaster wrecked on the lee shore of age like himself.

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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
The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

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
It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world.

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