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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.

~ Sarah Orne Jewett

Sarah Orne Jewett Friendship Love

There's more women likes to be loved than there is of those that loves.

~ Sarah Orne Jewett

Sarah Orne Jewett Love Reciprocity Women

The bright flower was like a face. Somehow, the beauty and life of it were surprising in the plain room, like a gay little child who might suddenly appear in a doorway.

~ Sarah Orne Jewett

Sarah Orne Jewett Beauty Beauty Of Life Flowers Life Roses

There are plenty of people dragging themselves miserably through the world, because they are clogged and fettered with work for which they have no fitness... I can't help believing that nothing is better than to find one's work early and hold fast to it, and put all one's heart into it.

~ Sarah Orne Jewett

Sarah Orne Jewett Work

A community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant when it is shut up to its own affairs, and gets no knowledge of the outside world except from a cheap, unprincipled paper.

~ Sarah Orne Jewett

Sarah Orne Jewett Community Ignorance Narrow Mindedness Newspaper

It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.

~ Sarah Orne Jewett

Sarah Orne Jewett Conversation Noise Silence

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.

~ Sarah Orne Jewett

Sarah Orne Jewett Seclusion Silence Solitude

I couldn't help thinkin' if she was as far out o' town as she was out o' tune, she wouldn't get back in a day.

~ Sarah Orne Jewett

Sarah Orne Jewett Bad Singing Humor Sarcasm Singing Wicked Humor

It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance that knows what you know. I see so many of these new folks nowadays, that seem to have neither past nor future. 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.

~ Sarah Orne Jewett

Sarah Orne Jewett Conversation Friendship Old Friends

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.

~ Sarah Orne Jewett

Sarah Orne Jewett Confidence You Little

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

~ Sarah Orne Jewett

Sarah Orne Jewett Friendship Friends
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