Sarah Orne Jewett
Sarah Orne Jewett
Sarah Orne Jewettwas an American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern seacoast of Maine. Jewett is recognized as an important practitioner of American literary regionalism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth3 September 1849
CountryUnited States of America
men world stealing
It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.
use wonder splendid
It is a splendid thing to have the use of any gift of God. It isn't for us to choose again, or wonder and dispute, but just work in our own places, and leave the rest to God.
sky knowing looks
Look bravely up into the sky, And be content with knowing That God wished for a buttercup Just here, where you are growing.
worthwhile
Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.
people forever secret
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.
reading memorable mind
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
friendship old-friends making-friends
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
mother children long
You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to.
mother distance stuff
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.
regret cells secret
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.
flower grateful ignorance
To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit or cowardice or mockery choosing another; to trust Him for our strength and fitness as the flowers do, simply giving ourselves back to Him in grateful service,—this is to keep the laws that give us the freedom of the city in which there is no longer any night of bewilderment or ignorance or uncertainty.
falling-in-love sight growth
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.
years mind literature
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.
eye aging natural
So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.