Susanna Moodie famous quotes

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Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
-- Susanna Moodie

#Encouraging #Dark #Clouds
I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.
-- Susanna Moodie

#Husband #Lying #Mistress
When things come to the worse, they generally mend.
-- Susanna Moodie
Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.
-- Susanna Moodie

#Children #Party #Character
Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
-- Susanna Moodie

#Home #Coming Home #Chickens
Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.
-- Susanna Moodie

#Liars #Lying #Pride
What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds -- this faithful witness against us for good or evil.
-- Susanna Moodie

#Memories #Evil #Faithful
The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen--he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus of overpopulous European countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtesy.
-- Susanna Moodie

#Country #Native American #Men
The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.
-- Susanna Moodie

#Eye #People #Political

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
The secret of the mystery is: God is always greater. No matter how great we think Him to be, His love is always greater.
No man knows what he can do until he tries.
They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.
And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is lifted from the pit and raised to a throne where a jeweled crown is placed on his head. The world has no shame in doing this; it is prompt to hand out both pleasure and pain and has no need of us an our doings.
Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system.
Someone who has acted carelessly, But later becomes careful and attentive, Is as beautiful as the bright moon emerging from the clouds.
A day without a dark cloud. Almost a happy day. There were three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days like that in his stretch. From the first clang of the rail to the last clang of the rail. Three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days. The three extra days were for leap years.
I have heard articulate speech produced by sunlight I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing! â€¦ I have been able to hear a shadow, and I have even perceived by ear the passage of a cloud across the sun's disk.

Susanna Moodie famous quotes

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