Lois Lenski famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A hard lesson had been learned--that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits.
-- Lois Lenski

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When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.
The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.
I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes are tight, the play ends at the right time, you know exactly what the scene is about, but it seems flat; you can almost see that too many hands have been on the play. The individual voice is gone.
O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.
I don't look at myself as suffering.
posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
What we suffer from today is an excess of education.
To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery ...
When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It's a beautiful pointer. It never fails.

Lois Lenski famous quotes

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