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Category: Sarah Orne Jewett

Sarah Orne Jewett

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

Friendship, Friends

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.

Confidence, You, Little

Sarah Orne Jewett

T’ain’t worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

Sarah Orne Jewett

A harbor even if it is a little harbor is a good thing…. It takes something from the world and has something to give in return.

Sarah Orne Jewett

The road was new to me as roads always are going back.

Sarah Orne Jewett

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

The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

Sarah Orne Jewett

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.

seclusion, silence, solitude

Sarah Orne Jewett

It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.

conversation, noise, silence

Sarah Orne Jewett

A community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant when it is shut up to its own affairs, and gets no knowledge of the outside world except from a cheap, unprincipled paper.

community, ignorance, narrow-mindedness, newspaper

Sarah Orne Jewett

Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.

Sarah Orne Jewett

I couldn’t help thinkin’ if she was as far out o’ town as she was out o’ tune, she wouldn’t get back in a day.

bad-singing, humor, sarcasm, singing, wicked-humor