Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
Sarah Orne Jewett

Friendship, Best, Friends

God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.
Sarah Orne Jewett

Women, God, Men

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.
Sarah Orne Jewett

Happiness, Nothing, Find

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
Sarah Orne Jewett

Mind, After, Reading

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.
Sarah Orne Jewett

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.
Sarah Orne Jewett

Great, Mind, Down

What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households.
Sarah Orne Jewett

Great, Made, Nation

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
Sarah Orne Jewett

Confidence, Suspect, Towering

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: September 3, 1849

Died: June 24, 1909

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