Your patience may have long to wait, Whether in little thin… - Sarah Orne Jewett

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Your patience may have long to wait, Whether in little things or great, But all good luck, you soon will learn, Must come to those who nobly earn. Who hunts the hay-field over Will find the four-leaved clover.

Sarah Orne Jewett

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About Sarah Orne Jewett

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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It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.

I often wondered a great deal about the inner life and thought of these self-contained old fishermen; their minds seemed to be fixed upon nature and the elements rather than upon any contrivances of man, like politics or theology.

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

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