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
age shore
Wrecked on the lee shore of age.
daughter country father
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.
strong giving world
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.
peace winter quiet
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.
grief silence world
It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.
law world may
we have these instincts which defy all our wisdom and for which we never can frame any laws. ... They are powers which are imperfectly developed in this life, but one cannot help the thought that the mystery of this world may be the commonplace of the next.
sight imagination world
it is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world ...
responsibility
What's everybody's business is nobody's business ...
sea news conversation
my friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news.
past roots conversation
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.
cat littles different
In these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old folks, they pray for the advantage o' bein' a little different.
compassion want next
I've got 's much feelin' as the next one, but when folks drives in their spiggits and wants to draw a bucketful o' compassion every day right straight along, there does come times when it seems as if the bar'l was getting low.
good-luck long waiting
Your patience may have long to wait,Whether in little things or great,But all good luck, you soon will learn,Must come to those who nobly earn.Who hunts the hay-field overWill find the four-leaved clover.
sorrow bears hardest
A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.