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Wrecked on the lee shore of age.
A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!
Imagination is the only true thing in the world!
What's everybody's business is nobody's business.
The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.
Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.
The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.
The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.
You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to.
What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households.
Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!
my friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news.
You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.
It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.
So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.
Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger.
It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.
There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!
In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.
Who was it said that you never get to a place until a day after you come, nor leave it until a day after you go?
I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.
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.
Look bravely up into the sky, And be content with knowing That God wished for a buttercup Just here, where you are growing.
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.
The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight.
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.
Write it as it is, don't try to make it like this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way-you will have to make a way of your own.
Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It was a return to happiness.
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.
When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.
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.
My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.
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.
There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.
There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased to call thought and character.
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.
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.
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.
It is a splendid thing to have the use of any gift of God. It isn't for us to choose again, or wonder and dispute, but just work in our own places, and leave the rest to God.
Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em.
A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.
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.
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.
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.
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.