Mary Mapes Dodge Quotes

#1. Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill! All the spring is in her train, Led by shining ranks of rain; Pit, pat, patter, clatter, Sudden sun and clatter patter! ... All things ready with a will, April's coming up the hill!

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#2. Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.

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#3. I'm as true a Protestant, in sooth, as any fine lady that walks into church, but it's not wrong to turn sometimes to the good St. Nicholas.

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#4. But when a snowflake, brave and meek,Lights on a rosy maiden's cheek,It starts-"How warm and soft the day!""'T is summer!" and it melts away.

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#5. But I believe that God is overheadAnd as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.

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#6. [On The Netherlands:] ... the entire country is a kind of saturated sponge ...

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#7. Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky,It turns and turns to say "Good-by!Good-by, dear clouds, so cool and gray!"Then lightly travels on its way.

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#8. What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.

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#9. Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be.

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#10. She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs; I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.

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#11. [On the Netherlands:] There is not a richer or more carefully tilled garden spot in the whole world than this leaky, springy little country.

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#12. Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago ...

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