Sarah Orne Jewett: Mind

Sarah Orne Jewett was American novelist, short story writer and poet. Explore interesting quotes on mind.
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“The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper — whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.”

Sarah Orne Jewett

Letter to Willa Cather, quoted in the preface to The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories (1925)

“Tact is after all a kind of mind-reading.”

Sarah Orne Jewett book The Country of the Pointed Firs

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), Ch. 10

“Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.”

Sarah Orne Jewett book The Country of the Pointed Firs

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), Ch. 5