Mary Ellen Chase
Mary Ellen Chase
Mary Ellen Chasewas an American educator, teacher, scholar, and author. She is regarded as one of the most important regional literary figures of the early twentieth century...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth24 February 1887
CountryUnited States of America
ideas understanding suffering
Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.
christmas
Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
real passion issues
The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities.
regret loss long
To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.
diversity imagination preparation
Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.
teacher teaching college
Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.
father sake given
Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.
children book reading
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
hope moving men
Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.
christmas mind states
Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.
inspirational change morning
It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person - beguiled, enchanted.