A Country Doctor Quotes

“To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit or cowardice or mockery choosing another; to trust Him for our strength and fitness as the flowers do, simply giving ourselves back to Him in grateful service,—this is to keep the laws that give us the freedom of the city in which there is no longer any night of bewilderment or ignorance or uncertainty.”
― Sarah Orne Jewett, A Country Doctor

“It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.”
― Sarah Orne Jewett, A Country Doctor

“It is a splendid thing to have the use of any gift of God. It isn't for us to choose again, or wonder and dispute, but just work in our own places, and leave the rest to God.”
― Sarah Orne Jewett, A Country Doctor

“There are plenty of people dragging themselves miserably through the world, because they are clogged and fettered with work for which they have no fitness... I can't help believing that nothing is better than to find one's work early and hold fast to it, and put all one's heart into it.”
― Sarah Orne Jewett, A Country Doctor

“Conformity is the inspiration of much second-rate virtue.”
― Sarah Orne Jewett, A Country Doctor

“This is a very small world; we are all within hail of each other. I dare say when we get to Heaven there will not be a stranger to make friends with.”
― Sarah Orne Jewett, A Country Doctor

“It is in human nature to respect power; but all his
manliness was at stake, and his natural rights would be degraded and lost, if he could not show his power to be greater than her own.”
― Sarah Orne Jewett, A Country Doctor