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Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
12 quotes
“I know,—yet my arms are empty, That fondly folded seven, And the mother heart within me Is almost starved for heaven.”
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1838–1912) first seen 1893 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Are the Children at Home?", in Poems of the Household (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893), p. 19.
“Never yet was a spring-time, Late though lingered the snow, That the sap stirred not at the whisper Of the south wind, sweet and low; Never yet was a spring-time When the buds forgot to blow.”
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1838–1912) first seen 1897 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Awakening", in Easter Bells: Poems (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1897), p. 4.
“Fifteen takes its perplexities very seriously and grieves wihout restraint over its sorrows.”
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1838–1912) said by 1912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic.”
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1838–1912) said by 1912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let every birthday be a festival, a time when the gladness of the house finds expression in flowers, in gifts, in a little fête. Never should a birthday be passed over without note, or as if it were a common day, never should it cease to be a garlanded milestone in the road of life.”
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1838–1912) said by 1912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every child's birthright is a happy home.”
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1838–1912) said by 1912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect.”
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1838–1912) said by 1912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mind does dominate body. We are superior to the house in which we dwell.”
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1838–1912) said by 1912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Self complacency is fatal to progress.”
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1838–1912) said by 1912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on a Southern highway, and a friend driving in a pony carriage passed me, stopped and said, "Have you heard that Charles Dickens is dead?" It was as if I had been robbed of one of the dearest of friends.”
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1838–1912) said by 1912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that could be offered in other pursuits or occupations. Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer, what a new discovery is to the scientific student.”
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1838–1912) said by 1912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.”
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1838–1912) said by 1912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source