Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Quotes

1838–1912 United States

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (February 22, 1838 – June 3, 1912) was an American poet, author, and editor popular in the late 19th and early 20th century.

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Also known as: Sangster, Margaret Elizabeth

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My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect.

Winsome Womanhood (1900)

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

Every child's birthright is a happy home.

Winsome Womanhood (1900)

One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic.

Winsome Womanhood (1900)

Mind does dominate body. We are superior to the house in which we dwell.

Winsome Womanhood (1900)

I know,—yet my arms are empty,
That fondly folded seven,
And the mother heart within me
Is almost starved for heaven.

Self complacency is fatal to progress.

Winsome Womanhood (1900)

Out of the chill and the shadow,
Into the thrill and the shine;
Out of the dearth and the famine,
Into the fulness divine.

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.

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.

Winsome Womanhood (1900)

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.

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.