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Sarah Josepha Hale

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (October 24, 1788 – April 30, 1879) was an American writer and an influential editor. She is the author of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Hale famously campaigned for the creation of the American holiday known as Thanksgiving, and for the completion of the Bunker Hill Monument.

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Crackers, toasted or hard bread may be added a short time before the soup is wanted; but do not put in those libels on civilized cookery, called DUMPLINGS! One might about as well eat, with the hope of digesting, a brick from the ruins of Babylon, as one of the hard, heavy masses of boiled dough which usually pass under this name.

Bread, Crackers, Digesting, Food, Hope, Names

Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.

Acceptance, Feelings, Genius, Lies, Lying, Power

Do not, as you value the health and happiness of those who sit at your table, place before them hot leavened bread or biscuit.

Bread, Hot, Leavened, Table, Tables

There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.

Awakens, Decay, Loss, Mind, Nature

The fearful are the failing.

Failing, Failure, Fearful

the engrossing pursuit of Americans is wealth.

Engrossing, Money, Pursuit, United States, Wealth

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

Becomes, Economy, Greed, Men, Rich, Rising

I've learned to judge of men by their own deeds; I do not make the accident of birth The standard of their merit.

Deeds, Judging, Men, Merit, Standard

Oh! welcome to the wearied Earth The Sabbath resting comes, Gathering the sons of toil and care Back to their peaceful homes; And, like a portal to the skies, Opens the House of God, Where all who seek may come and learn The way the Saviour trod. But holier to the wanderer seems The Sabbath on the deep, When on, and on, in ceaseless course, The toiling bark must keep, And not a trace of man appears Amid the wilderness Of waters--then it comes like dove Direct from heaven to bless.

Deep, Home, Men, Opens, Son, Sons

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

Failing, Failure, Fear, Fearful, Impossibility, Inspirational

Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man.

Character, Duty, Humble, Men, Strength

A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.

Favorite, Man, Men, Satisfied, Theory

Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.

Amusement, Creating, Necessity, Opinion, Thinking

It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets. . . Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

Gambling, Riches, Tickets, Wear, Lottery, Business

Among those kinds of food which the good housekeeper should scrupulously banish from her table, is that of hot leavened bread. . . . I believe it more often lays the foundation of diseases of the stomach, than any other kind of nourishment, used among us.

Banish, Believe, Food, Foundation, Hot, Leavened

This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.

Age, Characteristic, Money, Selfish, Thinking

. . . rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

Exercise, Rights, Liable, Wrongs, Exercising

And you each gentle animal In confidence may bind, And make them follow at your call, If you are always kind.

Kindness, Animal, May, Follow, Make

Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused into the minds of a whole people. . . . The feeling of equality which they proudly cherish does not proceed from an ignorance of their station, but from the knowledge of their rights; and it is this knowledge which will render it so exceedingly difficult for any tyrant ever to triumph over the liberties of our country.

Country, Ignorance, Liberties, Transfused, Triumph, Women

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

Purest, Silence, Spiritual, Temple, Temples, Thoughts

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