Sarah Orne Jewett quotes

Sarah Orne Jewett was an American author best known for her stories about rural life in New England. Her works are celebrated for their vivid descriptions and deep psychological insight into small-town characters. She influenced generations of writers with her sensitive and authentic portrayals of regional life. Here are 22 of her 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)
Tact is after all a kind of mind-reading. View quote
Sarah Orne Jewett
The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back. View quote
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. View quote
Sarah Orne Jewett
Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes. View quote
Sarah Orne Jewett
So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end. View quote
Sarah Orne Jewett
The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man. View quote
Sarah Orne Jewett
It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
Sarah Orne Jewett
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)
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. View quote
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What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households. View quote
Sarah Orne Jewett
Look bravely up into the sky, And be content with knowing That God wished for a buttercup Just here, where you are growing. View quote
Sarah Orne Jewett
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. View quote
Sarah Orne Jewett
"Step in some afternoon," he said, as affectionately as if I were a fellow-shipmaster wrecked on the lee shore of age like himself. View quote
Sarah Orne Jewett
Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading. View quote
Sarah Orne Jewett
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. View quote
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God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women. View quote
Sarah Orne Jewett
The warm sun kissed the earth To consecrate thy birth, And from his close embrace Thy radiant face Sprang into sight, A blossoming delight. View quote
Sarah Orne Jewett
We were standing where there was a fine view of the harbor and its long stretches of shore all covered by the great army of the pointed firs, darkly cloaked and standing as if they waited to embark. As we looked far seaward among the outer islands, the trees seemed to march seaward still, going steadily over the heights and down to the water's edge. (Sarah Orne Jewett)
You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world. View quote
Sarah Orne Jewett