The Country of the Pointed Firs
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“I have come to know what it is to have patience, but I have lost my hope.”
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs
Source: A Country Doctor
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
Source: The Only Rose
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs
“T’aint’ no use to look for public sperit ‘less you’ve got some yourself.”
Source: Novels and Stories: Deephaven / A Country Doctor / The Country of the Pointed Firs / Dunnet Landing Stories / Selected Stories and Sketches
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs: And Selected Short Fiction
“Wrecked on the lee shore of age.”
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs
“So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.”
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
Source: A White Heron and Other Stories
“You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to.”
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs
“You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.”
“Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.”
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
Source: Novels and Stories
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs
Source: The Complete Poems of Sarah Orne Jewett
Source: Novels and Stories
“God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.”
Source: A Country Doctor
Source: Deephaven, and other stories
“The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.”
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs
Source: The Complete Poems of Sarah Orne Jewett
“The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.”
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs
“A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.”
Source: The Life of Nancy
Source: Country By-Ways
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs
“my friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news.”
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs
Source: Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett
Source: Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs
Source: Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs
“Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger.”
Source: Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches
“Imagination is the only true thing in the world!”
Source: Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs: And Selected Short Fiction
Source: Deephaven and Other Stories
“It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.”
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs