Mary Ellen Chase famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person - beguiled, enchanted.
-- Mary Ellen Chase

#Inspirational #Change #Morning
Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.
-- Mary Ellen Chase

#Christmas #Mind #States
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
-- Mary Ellen Chase

#Children #Book #Reading
Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.
-- Mary Ellen Chase

#Father #Sake #Given
Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.
-- Mary Ellen Chase

#Hope #Moving #Men
The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities.
-- Mary Ellen Chase

#Real #Passion #Issues
Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.
-- Mary Ellen Chase

#Teacher #Teaching #College
Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.
-- Mary Ellen Chase

#Diversity #Imagination #Preparation
To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.
-- Mary Ellen Chase

#Regret #Loss #Long
Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.
-- Mary Ellen Chase

#Ideas #Understanding #Suffering

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