Josephine Preston Peabody Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Josephine Preston Peabody

One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau. — Josephine Preston Peabody

An ideal's love-fraught, imperious call
That bides the spheres become articulate. — Josephine Preston Peabody

This is a marvel of the universe:
To fling a thought across a stretch of sky
Some weighty message, or a yearning cry,
It matters not; the elements rehearse
Man's urgent utterance, and his words traverse
The spacious heav'ns like homing birds that fly
Unswervingly, until, upreached on high,
A quickened hand plucks off the message terse. — Josephine Preston Peabody

The little Road says, Go; The little House says, Stay; And oh, it's bonny here at home, But I must go away. — Josephine Preston Peabody