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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.
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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You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
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The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.
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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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Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!
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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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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 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.
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What's everybody's business is nobody's business.
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A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.
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my friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news.
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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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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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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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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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Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.
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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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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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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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