Helen Hunt Jackson

Helen Hunt Jackson: Find me the...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Find me the...

Find me the men on earth who care
Enough for faith or creed today
To seek a barren wilderness
For simple...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: That indescribable expression...

Helen Hunt Jackson: That indescribable expression...

That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: The mighty are...

Helen Hunt Jackson: The mighty are...

The mighty are brought low by many a thing
Too small to name. Beneath the daisy's disk
Lies hid the pebble for...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Oh, write of...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Oh, write of...

Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains,
But Emigrated to another star!


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Helen Hunt Jackson: There is nothing...

Helen Hunt Jackson: There is nothing...

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

Source: Ramona...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Now and then...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Now and then...

Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Words are less...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Words are less...

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

Source: Ramona, 1884.
-- Helen...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Who waits until...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Who waits until...

Who waits until the wind shall silent keep.
Will never find the ready hour to sow.


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Helen Hunt Jackson: Wounded vanity knows...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Wounded vanity knows...

Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Who longest waits...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Who longest waits...

Who longest waits most surely wins.

Source: In The Book of Positive Quotations, by...

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