Susanna Moodie quotes
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“Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.”
-- Susanna MoodieSource : Susanna Moodie (2010). “Life in the Clearings versus the Bush”, p.11, New Canadian Library
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“I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.”
-- Susanna MoodieSource : Susanna Moodie (1913). “Roughing It in the Bush, or Life in Canada”, p.193, Hayes Barton Press
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“When things come to the worse, they generally mend.”
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“Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.”
-- Susanna MoodieSource : Susanna Moodie (2010). “Life in the Clearings versus the Bush”, p.356, New Canadian Library
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“Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.”
-- Susanna MoodieSource : Susanna Moodie (2011). “Roughing it in the Bush: Or, Life in Canada”, p.158, Cambridge University Press
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“Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.”
-- Susanna MoodieSource : Susanna Moodie (1853). “Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush”, p.76, London : R. Bentley
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“What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds -- this faithful witness against us for good or evil.”
-- Susanna MoodieSource : Susanna Moodie (1853). “Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush”, p.304, London : R. Bentley
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“The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen--he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus of overpopulous European countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtesy.”
-- Susanna MoodieSource : Susanna Moodie (1852). “Roughing it in the Bush: Or, Life in Canada”, p.11, London : R. Bentley
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“The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.”
-- Susanna MoodieSource : Susanna Moodie, John Wedderburn Dunbar Moodie (1968). “The Victoria magazine, 1847-1848”
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“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”
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“Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.”
Source : The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)
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“No man knows what he can do until he tries.”
Source : Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.187, Book Tree
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Source : Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2016). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.303, Penguin
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