Sarah Josepha Hale Quotes

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• No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

  Kathleen Ann Lawrence, Abigail Adams, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, Louisa May Alcott, Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1989). “The Domestic Idiom: The Rhetorical Appeals of Four Influential Women in Nineteenth-century America”

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• It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Hope, Heart, Secret

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.217

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• In this age of innovation perhaps no experiment will have an influence more important on the character and happiness of our society than the granting to females the advantages of a systematic and thorough education.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Character, Innovation, Important

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1828). “Ladies' Magazine”, p.1

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• Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused into the minds of a whole people....The feeling of equality which they proudly cherish does not proceed from an ignorance of their station, but from the knowledge of their rights; and it is this knowledge which will render it so exceedingly difficult for any tyrant ever to triumph over the liberties of our country.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Country, Women, Ignorance

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1828). “Ladies' Magazine”, p.443

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• There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Inspirational, Fear, Failure

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• There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Education, Leisure, Worthless

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• The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Spiritual, Silence, Temples

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, John F. Addington (1859). “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”, p.477

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• There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Land, Danger, Plenty

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.165

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• The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Women, Mind, Suggestions

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1868). “Manners”, p.147

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• ... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Exercise, Rights, Liable

  Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1850). “Godey's Magazine”

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• The burning soul, the burden'd mind,
  In books alone companions find.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Book, Soul, Mind

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• Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Epic, Water, Soul

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.195

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• Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Money, Giving, Riches

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.212

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• O, beautiful rainbow; - all woven of light!
  There's not in thy tissue, one shadow of night;
  Heaven surely is open when thou dost appear,
  And, bending above thee, the angels draw near,
  And sing, - "The rainbow! the rainbow!
  "The smile of God is here."

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Beautiful, Angel, Night

  "A complete dictionary of poetical quotations".

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• There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Education, Mother, Powerful

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• A blessing on the printer's art!--
  Books are the mentors of the heart.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Art, Book, Blessing

  Sarah Josepha Hale (1850). “Dictionary of poetical quotations”, p.56

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• Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome;
  The good, the true, the tender - these form the wealth of home.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Family, Home, Domes

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1848). “Three Hours: Or, The Vigil of Love: and Other Poems”, p.187

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• Morning ... 'tis Nature's gayest hour!

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Morning, Hours

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• This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Money, Selfish, Thinking

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.239

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• A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Men, Theory, Satisfied

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• Crackers, toasted or hard bread may be added a short time before the soup is wanted; but do not put in those libels on civilized cookery, called DUMPLINGS! One might about as well eat, with the hope of digesting, a brick from the ruins of Babylon, as one of the hard, heavy masses of boiled dough which usually pass under this name.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Food, Names, Soup

  Sarah Josepha Hale (2012). “Early American Cookery: "The Good Housekeeper," 1841”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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• And you each gentle animal
  In confidence may bind,
  And make them follow at your call,
  If you are always kind.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Kindness, Animal, May

  Sarah Josepha Hale (1850). “Dictionary of poetical quotations”, p.26

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• Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Thinking, Creating, Amusement

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1828). “Ladies' Magazine”, p.537

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• Oh! welcome to the wearied Earth
  The Sabbath resting comes,
  Gathering the sons of toil and care
  Back to their peaceful homes;
  And, like a portal to the skies,
  Opens the House of God,
  Where all who seek may come and learn
  The way the Saviour trod.
  But holier to the wanderer seems
  The Sabbath on the deep,
  When on, and on, in ceaseless course,
  The toiling bark must keep,
  And not a trace of man appears
  Amid the wilderness
  Of waters--then it comes like dove
  Direct from heaven to bless.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Home, Son, Men

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• It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Oil, Water, Evil

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