Traits of American Life
A source page for quotes linked to Sarah Josepha Hale.
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Source: Dictionary of poetical quotations
“Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.”
Source: Ladies' Magazine
Source: Traits of American Life
Source: Traits of American Life
“There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.”
Source: Ladies' Magazine
Source: Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette
“What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.”
Source: Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette
Source: Traits of American Life
Source: Traits of American Life
Source: Traits of American Life
Source: Traits of American Life
“What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!”
Source: Traits of American Life
“the engrossing pursuit of Americans is wealth.”
Source: Traits of American Life
Source: Ladies' Magazine
“A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.”
Source: Traits of American Life
Source: Traits of American Life
“Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.”
Source: Traits of American Life
Source: Manners
“... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.”
Source: Godey's Magazine
Source: Ladies' Magazine
Source: Dictionary of poetical quotations
Source: Three Hours: Or, The Vigil of Love: and Other Poems
Source: Dictionary of poetical quotations
“A blessing on the printer's art!-- Books are the mentors of the heart.”
Source: Dictionary of poetical quotations
“The burning soul, the burden'd mind, In books alone companions find.”
“What matter though the scorn of fools be given If the path follow'd lead us on to heaven!”
Source: Dictionary of poetical quotations
Source: Early American Cookery:
Source: Early American Cookery:
“No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.”
Source: The Domestic Idiom: The Rhetorical Appeals of Four Influential Women in Nineteenth-century America
“The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.”
Source: A complete dictionary of poetical quotations: comprising the most excellent and appropriate passages in the old British poets; with choice and copious selections from the best modern British and American poets
“Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.”
Source: Three Hours: Or, The Vigil of Love: and Other Poems
Source: Ladies' Magazine
“The fearful are the failing.”
Source: Dictionary of poetical quotations
“There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.”
Source: Ladies' Magazine
Source: Traits of American Life
Source: The Way to Live Well: And to be Well While We Live, Containing Directions for Choosing and Preparing Food in Regard to Health, Economy, and Taste
Source: Three Hours: Or, The Vigil of Love: and Other Poems