There are plenty of people dragging themselves miserably th… - Sarah Orne Jewett

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There are plenty of people dragging themselves miserably through the world, because they are clogged and fettered with work for which they have no fitness... I can't help believing that nothing is better than to find one's work early and hold fast to it, and put all one's heart into it.

Sarah Orne Jewett

A Country Doctor · April 6, 1999 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3, 1849 – June 24, 1909) was an American author and poet whose works were primarily set in her native New England.

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Birth Name: Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett

Alternative Names: Sara Orne Jewett • Sara Jewett • Sarah O. Jewett

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Conformity is the inspiration of much second-rate virtue.

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper — whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

This is a very small world; we are all within hail of each other. I dare say when we get to Heaven there will not be a stranger to make friends with.

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