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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
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Sarah Orne Jewett
Age: 60 †
Born: 1849
Born: September 3
Died: 1909
Died: December 24
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York County
Maine
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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.
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You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
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There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased to call thought and character.
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There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.
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A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.
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When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.
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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.
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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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The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.
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Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em.
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There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.
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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.
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my friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news.
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