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A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.
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
Sara Orne Jewett
Sara Jewett
Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett
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Bears
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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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What's everybody's business is nobody's business.
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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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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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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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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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my friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news.
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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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The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
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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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The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.
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Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.
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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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In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.
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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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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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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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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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Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!
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