Constance Fenimore Woolson quotes
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“In tangled wreath, in clustered gleaming stars, In floating, curling sprays, The golden flower comes shining though the woods These February days; Forth go all hearts, all hands, from out the town, To bring her gayly in, This wild, sweet Princess of far Florida - The yellow jessamine.”
-- Constance Fenimore WoolsonSource : Clare Benedict, Constance Fenimore Woolson (1930*). “Five Generations (1785-1923): Being Scattered Chapters from the History of the Cooper, Pomeroy, Woolson and Benedict Families, with Extracts from Their Letters and Journals, as Well as Articles and Poems by Constance Fenimore Woolson”
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“Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.”
-- Constance Fenimore WoolsonSource : Constance Fenimore Woolson (1892). “Anne”
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“If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us ...”
-- Constance Fenimore WoolsonSource : Constance Fenimore Woolson (2015). “Anne”, p.239, Sheba Blake Publishing
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“Are we to go out with trumpets and tell everything we know, just because it is true? Is there not such a thing as egotistical truthfulness?”
-- Constance Fenimore WoolsonSource : Constance Fenimore Woolson (1960). “Anne: A Novel”, p.170, Library of Alexandria
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“a daughter's love for a kind father ... is mixed with the careless happiness of childhood, which can never come again. Into the father's grave the daughter, sometimes a gray-haired woman, lays away forever the little pet names and memories which to all the rest of the world are but foolishness.”
-- Constance Fenimore WoolsonSource : Constance Fenimore Woolson (2012). “Anne: A Novel”, p.129, The Floating Press
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“It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?”
-- Constance Fenimore WoolsonSource : Constance Fenimore Woolson (2015). “Anne”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing
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“warm-heartedness generally begins at home, and those who are warm to others are warmer to themselves; it is but the overflow.”
-- Constance Fenimore WoolsonSource : Constance Fenimore Woolson (2015). “Anne”, p.89, Sheba Blake Publishing
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“Time is not so all-erasing as we think.”
-- Constance Fenimore WoolsonSource : Constance Fenimore Woolson (2015). “Anne”, p.177, Sheba Blake Publishing
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“My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same.”
-- Constance Fenimore WoolsonSource : Constance Fenimore Woolson (2015). “Anne”, p.391, Sheba Blake Publishing
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Source : Song: Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly
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Source : Akira Kurosawa (2011). “Something Like An Autobiography”, p.192, Vintage
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Source : Alamgir Hashmi (1992). “Sun and moon, and other poems”
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