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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...
That indescribable expression...
That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they...
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...
Oh, write of...
Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains,
But Emigrated to another star!
There is nothing...
There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.
Source: Ramona...
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...
Words are less...
Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.
Source: Ramona, 1884.
-- Helen...
Who waits until...
Who waits until the wind shall silent keep.
Will never find the ready hour to sow.
Wounded vanity knows...
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride...
Who longest waits...
Who longest waits most surely wins.
Source: In The Book of Positive Quotations, by...
Find me the...
Find me the men on earth who care
Enough for faith or creed today
To seek a barren wilderness
For simple...
That indescribable expression...
That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they...
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...
Oh, write of...
Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains,
But Emigrated to another star!
There is nothing...
There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.
Source: Ramona...
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...
Words are less...
Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.
Source: Ramona, 1884.
-- Helen...
Who waits until...
Who waits until the wind shall silent keep.
Will never find the ready hour to sow.
Wounded vanity knows...
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride...
Who longest waits...
Who longest waits most surely wins.
Source: In The Book of Positive Quotations, by...