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• Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Book, Writing, Tire

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1828). “Ladies' Magazine”, p.205

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• There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always associated with mirth and rejoicing is at hand.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Christmas, Grief, Hands

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.219

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• Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Happiness, Art, Different

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.216

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• Hail, Holy Day! the blessing from above
  Brightens thy presence like a smile of love,
  Smoothing, like oil upon a stormy sea,
  The roughest waves of human destiny
  Cheering the good, and to the poor oppress'd
  Bearing the promise of their heavenly rest.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Cheer, Blessing, Destiny

  Sarah Josepha Hale (1850). “Dictionary of poetical quotations”, p.461

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• the engrossing pursuit of Americans is wealth.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Money, United States, Wealth

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.2

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• It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Gambling, Riches, Tickets

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1832). “Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette”, p.459

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• There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Children, Learning, Heart

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• many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Mother, Children, Thinking

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

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• Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Lying, Acceptance, Feelings

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• I've learned to judge of men by their own deeds;
  I do not make the accident of birth
  The standard of their merit.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Men, Judging, Deeds

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• Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Passion, Two, Liberty

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.159

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• There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Loss, Mind, Decay

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

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• self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect, is the essential of contentment and happiness.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Self, People, Mind

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1828). “Ladies' Magazine”, p.104

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• And evermore the waters worship God;--
  And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres
  While listening to the music of the waves!

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Ocean, Water, Listening

  Sarah Josepha Hale (1850). “Dictionary of poetical quotations”, p.388

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• What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Money, Giving, World

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.80

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• Though youth be past, and beauty fled,
  The constant heart its pledge redeems,
  Like box, that guards the flowerless bed
  And brighter from the contrast seems.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Heart, Past, Bed

  Sarah Josepha Hale (1850). “Dictionary of poetical quotations”, p.82

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• The fearful are the failing.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Failure, Failing, Fearful

  Sarah Josepha Hale (1850). “Dictionary of poetical quotations”, p.450

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• Do not, as you value the health and happiness of those who sit at your table, place before them hot leavened bread or biscuit.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Hot, Tables, Bread

  Sarah Josepha Hale (2012). “Early American Cookery: "The Good Housekeeper," 1841”, p.129, Courier Corporation

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• What matter though the scorn of fools be given
  If the path follow'd lead us on to heaven!

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  What Matters, Heaven, Path

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• What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Men, Greed, Rising

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1832). “Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette”, p.156

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• Rugged strength and radiant beauty--
  These were one in Nature's plan;
  Humble toil and heavenward duty--
  These will form the perfect man.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Character, Humble, Men

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1848). “Three Hours: Or, The Vigil of Love: and Other Poems”, p.72

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• Some determined advocates of the vegetable system maintain, that the teeth and stomach of the monkey correspond, in structure, very closely with that of man, yet it lives on fruits - therefore if man followed nature, he would live on fruits and vegetables. But though the anatomical likeness between man and monkeys is striking, yet it is not complete; the difference may be and doubtless is precisely that which makes a difference of diet necessary to nourish and develope their dissimilar natures. Those who should live as the monkeys do would most closely resemble them.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Men, Vegetables, Differences

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1851). “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”, p.19

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• Among those kinds of food which the good housekeeper should scrupulously banish from her table, is that of hot leavened bread....I believe it more often lays the foundation of diseases of the stomach, than any other kind of nourishment, used among us.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Believe, Foundation, Hot

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• Why is it that water, so monotonous in its characteristics, should nevertheless possess a charm for every mind? I believe it is chiefly because it bears the impress of the Creator, which we feel neither the power of time or of man can efface or alter.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Believe, Men, Water

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

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• Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother's mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a West, or train a Washington.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Mother, Fashion, Inspire

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1848). “Three Hours: Or, The Vigil of Love: and Other Poems”, p.90

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