Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Sarah Orne Jewett:

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/sarah-orne-jewett-quotes/#a4de550e

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/sarah-orne-jewett-quotes/#b1b2b761

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/sarah-orne-jewett-quotes/#49228bcb

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/sarah-orne-jewett-quotes/#43753038

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/sarah-orne-jewett-quotes/#19058e0a

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/sarah-orne-jewett-quotes/#3a092347

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/sarah-orne-jewett-quotes/#6b7e8cd0

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/sarah-orne-jewett-quotes/#2cfe62d1

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