Sarah Josepha Hale Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.”
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“Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused into the minds of a whole people....The feeling of equality which they proudly cherish does not proceed from an ignorance of their station, but from the knowledge of their rights; and it is this knowledge which will render it so exceedingly difficult for any tyrant ever to triumph over the liberties of our country.”
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“What matter though the scorn of fools be given If the path follow'd lead us on to heaven!”
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“The burning soul, the burden'd mind, In books alone companions find.”
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“A blessing on the printer's art!-- Books are the mentors of the heart.”
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“It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.”
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“Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man.”
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“Though youth be past, and beauty fled, The constant heart its pledge redeems, Like box, that guards the flowerless bed And brighter from the contrast seems.”
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“I've learned to judge of men by their own deeds; I do not make the accident of birth The standard of their merit.”
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“And you each gentle animal In confidence may bind, And make them follow at your call, If you are always kind.”
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“And evermore the waters worship God;-- And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres While listening to the music of the waves!”
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“In this age of innovation perhaps no experiment will have an influence more important on the character and happiness of our society than the granting to females the advantages of a systematic and thorough education.”
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“... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.”
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“It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.”
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“There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.”
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“This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.”
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“Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.”
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“What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!”
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“the engrossing pursuit of Americans is wealth.”
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“Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.”
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“Some determined advocates of the vegetable system maintain, that the teeth and stomach of the monkey correspond, in structure, very closely with that of man, yet it lives on fruits - therefore if man followed nature, he would live on fruits and vegetables. But though the anatomical likeness between man and monkeys is striking, yet it is not complete; the difference may be and doubtless is precisely that which makes a difference of diet necessary to nourish and develope their dissimilar natures. Those who should live as the monkeys do would most closely resemble them.”
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“What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.”
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“It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.”
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“Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; The good, the true, the tender - these form the wealth of home.”
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“Morning ... 'tis Nature's gayest hour!”
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“Hail, Holy Day! the blessing from above Brightens thy presence like a smile of love, Smoothing, like oil upon a stormy sea, The roughest waves of human destiny Cheering the good, and to the poor oppress'd Bearing the promise of their heavenly rest.”
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“There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.”
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“Oh! welcome to the wearied Earth The Sabbath resting comes, Gathering the sons of toil and care Back to their peaceful homes; And, like a portal to the skies, Opens the House of God, Where all who seek may come and learn The way the Saviour trod. But holier to the wanderer seems The Sabbath on the deep, When on, and on, in ceaseless course, The toiling bark must keep, And not a trace of man appears Amid the wilderness Of waters--then it comes like dove Direct from heaven to bless.”
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“Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.”
-- Sarah Josepha Hale
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