Top 69 Gene Stratton-Porter Quotes
#4. My publishers will make any kind of a beautiful book I design and send in to them, but ... For poetry they have less use than a rooster would have for skates.
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#5. She said. Mrs. Comstock did not reply. She watched the girl follow the long walk to the gate and go from sight on the road, in the bright sunshine
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#6. Such a big majority of book critics and authors have begun to teach, whether they really believe it or not, that no book is TRUE TO LIFE unless it is true to the WORST IN LIFE, that the idea has infected even the women.
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#8. The swamp had sent back the soul of her loved dead and put it into the body of the daughter she resented, and it was almost more than she could endure and live.
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#10. Down the footpath the two went through the perfect morning, the love of God and all nature in their hearts.
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#12. We never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine piece of furniture ...
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#13. I do not believe there is any one study that can be taken up that will broaden the imagination, that will be the source from which will spring more deep thinking and sincere research than the study of astronomy.
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#14. The friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain.
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#15. The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.
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#16. It must have been perfectly dreadful to see a woman every day for five years, and not give her a pie, when you felt sure yours were better than she could make.
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#17. If the homemakers of this country don't get the idea into their heads pretty soon that they are not going to be able to hold their own with the rest of the world, with no children, or one child in the family, there's a sad day of reckoning coming.
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#18. I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.
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#19. The Angel's eyes widened curiously and her lips parted. a deep colour swept into her cheeks. She had intended to arouse him. She had more than succeeded. She was too young to know that in the effort to rouse a man, women frequently kindle fires that they neither can quench or control.
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#20. It takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.
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#21. That spring I decided if school didn't stop pretty soon, I'd run away again, and I didn't in the least care what they did to me.
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#22. The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people ...
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#24. When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.
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#25. Knowing things will not harm you. Doing them is a different matter. What you know will be a protection. What you do ruins - if it is wrong.
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#26. I loved words that filled your mouth, and sounded as if you were used to books.
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#27. Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?
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#28. It was a boyish thing to do and it caught the hesitating girl in the depths of her heart, as the boy element in a man ever appeals to a motherly woman.
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#29. He only knew that he had lived up to his best impulse, and that is all any one can do.
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#30. I exist in a twenty-mile radius, but through him, I know all lands, principalities and kingdoms, peoples and customs. I need never be ashamed to go, or afraid to speak, anywhere.
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#31. Maybe after all it's a good thing to tell people about their meanness and give them a stirring up once in a while.
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#32. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.
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#33. They all reproduce themselves, they all make something intended for music, they all express a feeling in their hearts by the exercise we call dance, they all believe in the after life of the soul. This belief is as much a PART of any man, ever born in any location, as his hands and his feet.
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#34. I was born a sweater, I shall just go on sweating until I die; I refuse to begin perspiring at my time of life." "You
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#35. She knew, even lacking as she was in feminine sophistication, that there were two open roads to the heart of a woman. One is a wedding and the other is a baby. The lure of either is irresistible. As
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#37. With some people it makes a regular battlefield of the human heart - this struggle for self-expression," said Philip. "You are going to do beautiful work in the world, and do it well.
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#39. There was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.
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#40. Of course you do, child," said mother. "Families were made to cling together, and stand by each other in every circumstance of life - joy or sorrow. Of course you need your family.
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#41. Billy moved restlessly. "Seems like-seems like- towards night as if a body got kind o' lonesome for a woman person-like her." Billy indicated Margaret and then closed his eyes so tight his small face wrinkled.
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#42. How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows ...
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#43. I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.
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#44. Is he well educated?"
"Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day of his life, same as father. He says it is all rot about 'finishing' your education. You never do. You learn more important things each day ...
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#45. I am so unfortunate in my temper. I could manage slaves better than women. This time I'll be calm, and reason things out with her, or I'll blow out my brains.
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#46. No one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.
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#47. You see it's like this: the Book tells us most distinctly that 'God is love.' Now it was love that sent Laddie to bind himself for a long, tedious job, to give Leon his horse, wasn't it?
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#48. Not!' This is a house of worship. The Lord may be drawing her in His own way. It is for us to help Him by being kind and making her welcome.
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#49. night. A pretty figure you'd cut if you had your way! And after I've gone and bought you this nice new pail and filled it especial to start on!" Elnora came
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#50. But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora.
"Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy ...
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#51. Reason may be depended upon to keep its balance when God gives the surcease of tears in time of trouble.
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#52. She is the best-dressed woman in the county, and the best looking," said Mrs. Bates, "and that's all there is to her.
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#53. I object," said the man emphatically. He stopped work again and studied Elnora. Even the watching mother could not blame him. Against the embankment, in the shade of the bridge Elnora's bright head, and her lavender dress made a picture worthy of much contemplation.
I object!" repeated the man.
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#54. We are all more interested in ourselves than in any one else in this world, until love comes; then we soon learn to a love man more than life, and when a child comes we learn another love, so clear, so high, so purifying, that we become of no moment at all, and live only for those we love." "You
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#56. In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception
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#57. It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.
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#58. The Cardinal ... It was as if a pulsing heart of flame passed by when he came winging through the orchard.
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#59. What you have to give is taught in no college, and I am not sure but you would spoil yourself if you tried to run your mind through a set groove with hundreds of others.
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#60. We know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.
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#61. Ance a man-child has beaten his way to life under the heart of a woman, she is mither to all men, for the hearts of mithers are everywhere the same.
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#64. Turn her loose out of doors; give her good books, and leave her alone. You won't be disappointed in the woman who evolves.
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#65. I was ignorant at first of bookish subjects, but in his atmosphere, if one were no student, and didn't even try to keep up, or forge ahead, they would absorb much through association.
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#66. Father said man was born a praying animal, and no matter how wicked he was, if he had an accident, or saw he had just got to die, he cried aloud to the Lord for help and mercy before he knew what he was doing.
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#67. I have to take care of this," faltered Elnora, hurrying toward the door to hide the tears which were rolling down her cheeks. "I must help," said Philip, disappearing also. "Elnora," he called, catching up with her, "take me where
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#68. There is one great beauty in idealized romance: reading it can make no one worse than he is, while it may help thousands to a cleaner life and higher inspiration than they ever before have known.
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#69. Every intoxicating delight of early spring was in the air. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume and the crisp, fresh odor of unfolding leaves.
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