14 Mary Mapes Dodge Quotes

Mary Mapes Dodge quotes

1. Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky, It turns and turns to say 'Good-by! Good-by, dear clouds, so cool and gray!' Then lightly travels on its way.

2. But when a snowflake, brave and meek, Lights on a rosy maiden's cheek, It starts-'How warm and soft the day!' ''T is summer!' and it melts away.

3. Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be; Yet oh, how dear it is to us, this life we live and see!

1. Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill! All the spring is in her train, Led by shining ranks of rain; Pit, pat, patter, clatter, Sudden sun and clatter patter!... All things ready with a will, April's coming up the hill!

2. [On The Netherlands:] ... the entire country is a kind of saturated sponge.

3. [On the Netherlands:] There is not a richer or more carefully tilled garden spot in the whole world than this leaky, springy little country.

4. She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs; I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.

5. Ten years dropped from a man's life are no small loss; ten years of manhood, of household happiness and care; ten years of honest labor, of conscious enjoyment of sunshine and outdoor beauty; ten years of grateful life--one day looking forward to all this; the next, waking to find them passed, and a blank.

6. Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago…

7. Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.

8. I'm as true a Protestant, in sooth, as any fine lady that walks into church, but it's not wrong to turn sometimes to the good St. Nicholas.

9. But I believe that God is overheadAnd as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.

10. What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.

11. “a half-dollar's worth will sometimes do for the poor what hundreds of dollars may fail to do for the rich; it makes them happy and grateful,”