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Mabel Osgood Wright Inspirational Quotes (11)

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That is the stimulus of nature it is never, never old, and always developing. Even the scarred, wrinkled earth herself is a mere infant among the old ladies and gentlemen that tread foot-paths in the sky.
Mabel Osgood Wright
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the various earth odors all have a separate tale to tell, and the leaf mold of the woods bears a wholly different fragrance from that of the soil under pasture turf, or the breath that the garden gives off in great sighs of relief when it is relaxed and refreshed by a summer shower.
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Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due?
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what's the good of having news an' ye must coop it? It's like cold veal pie upon the chest for supper, the same being over old, under done, and dry o' gravy.
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Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs?
Mabel Osgood Wright
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in the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.
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I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics can neither compass nor share.
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what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.
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It doesn't so much matter what one loves. To love is the transfiguring thing.
Mabel Osgood Wright
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Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even.
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even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early spring.
Mabel Osgood Wright