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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 lean sorrow is hardest to bear.
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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 we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.
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A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.
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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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The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight.
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my friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news.
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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.
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It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.
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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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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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Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.
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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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The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.
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Write it as it is, don't try to make it like this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way-you will have to make a way of your own.
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You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
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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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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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My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.
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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 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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