Mary Jane Holmes quotes

“The breath of liberty is sweet.”
-- Mary Jane Holmes

Source : Mary Jane Holmes (1870). “Lena Rivers”, p.199, Рипол Классик

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“death, however long expected, is sudden at the last ...”
-- Mary Jane Holmes

Source : Mary Jane Holmes (1872). “Dora Deane, Or The East India Uncle: And Maggie Miller, Or Old Hagar's Secret”, p.78

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“people who understand grammar always have a keen sense of the ridiculous.”
-- Mary Jane Holmes

Source : Mary Jane Holmes (1871). “The English Orphans; Or, A Home in the New World”, p.81

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“Strange that theory and practice so seldom should accord.”
-- Mary Jane Holmes

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“Experience is a thorough teacher ...”
-- Mary Jane Holmes

Source : Mary Jane Holmes (1864). “Cousin Maude and Rosamond”, p.64

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“Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.”

“I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced – only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending – sweet or sour – and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable?”

“I want to open myself. ... I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus. I danced for the Devil; I saw him, I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil. I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil. I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!”

“O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, Completing him not otherwise complete! How void and useless the sad remnant left Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.79

“Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition... and also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can't understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.”

“I have been a joy to live with all spring: Upbeat, warm and tender, uncomplicated, and loving. I am no trouble at all. You could press me into dough and make sugar cookies out of me, I've been so sweet.”

“We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.”

“The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty”

“What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?”

“Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man.”