I have a lot of energy. I knew the odds were against us but I knew I had to do something else because not only did I have my two children in college, but every other college child became my child.


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Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forwa...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
It is plainly evident that, in a country where land was to be had for the asking, fuel for the cutti...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return vo...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
Living means constantly growing closer to death. Satisfaction only temporarily relieves hunger. Find...
JACKIE MORSE KESSLER
The first meeting-houses were often built in the valleys, in the meadow lands; for the dwelling-hous...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many ...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the b...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North a...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
Government action causes special interest reaction.
ERIC ROBERT MORSE
Everyone knows that it is irrational to get involved in politics, so, as a matter of course, the rat...
ERIC ROBERT MORSE
Communal ownership means that all benefit for a short time; private ownership means that few people ...
ERIC ROBERT MORSE
It is not a leap to suggest that all of the distinctive advances made between 1500 and today, for be...
ERIC ROBERT MORSE
The irony of collective ownership is that it spurs more selfishness than does private ownership.
ERIC ROBERT MORSE
In short, self-rule is workable only when a people are self-sufficient enough to reject the hierarch...
ERIC ROBERT MORSE
Like clockwork, the powerful end up dictating, and so everyone is forced to compete for power, which...
ERIC ROBERT MORSE
It is a truth widely recognized that tyranny stems from the consent of the governed as much as democ...
ERIC ROBERT MORSE
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
ALICE MORSE EARLE
The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow ...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle ...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first publ...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
We've had to see patients in the hall, and every shift we call hospitals to see what their availabil...
DR. RUSTIN MORSE
We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
YOU DEMAND SALVATION EVEN AS YOU STEAL FROM THE COLLECTION PLATE.

YOU SEND FOOD TO THE RE...
JACKIE MORSE KESSLER
What hath God wrought?
SAMUEL F. B. MORSE
Where’s our teacher?”
“Probably getting it on with the English teacher.”
- Alex ...
R.J. MORSE, R.J. BROOKES