Helen Hunt Jackson Quotes

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Earth Pride Waiting

I shall be found with 'Indians' engraved on my brain when I am dead. A fire has been kindled within me, which will never go out.

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Fire, Brain, Found

Helen Hunt Jackson (1998). “The Indian Reform Letters of Helen Hunt Jackson, 1879-1885”, p.56, University of Oklahoma Press

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When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

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Eternity

Helen Hunt Jackson, “The Victory Of Patience”

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If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.

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Uncles, Writing, Being Thankful

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The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and women, is a creator second only to God.

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Strong, Children, Growing Up

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Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?

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Passion, Names, Flames

Helen Hunt Jackson (1892). “Poems”

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Nothing can be so bad as to be displeased with one's self.

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Self

Helen Hunt Jackson (2010). “Ramona”, p.44, Modern Library

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When love is at its best, one loves
So much that he cannot forget.

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Love, Life, Forget

Helen Hunt Jackson, “Two Truths”

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Next time!' In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?

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Promise, Calendars, Records

Helen Hunt Jackson (2008). “Ramona”, p.273, Broadview Press

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By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

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Inspiring, Summer, Cheer

Helen Hunt Jackson, “September”

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Who longest waits most surely wins.

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Inspirational, Work, Winning

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One of Dr. Johnson's ingredients of happiness was, "A little less time than you want." That means always to have so many things you want to see, to have, and to do, that no day is quite long enough for all you think you would like to get done before you go to bed.

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Happiness, Mean, Thinking

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Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

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Mothers Day, Mom, Mother And Daughter

Helen Hunt Jackson (1877). “Verses”, p.11

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

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Pride, Defense, Skillful

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Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if the artful but know it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.

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Weapons, Faces, Now And Then

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

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Wind, Waiting, Silent

Helen Hunt Jackson, “Chance”

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O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.

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Sweet, Time, Morning

Helen Hunt Jackson (1877). “Verses”, p.90

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But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again, In babyhood.

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Pain, Lost Love, Sleep

Helen Hunt Jackson (1872). “Verses”, p.38

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I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.

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Fall, Autumn, Land

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Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down upon the world,-\-\it seemed the whole world, so limitless it stretched away at her feet,-\-\feeling that infinite unspeakable sense of nearness to Heaven, remoteness from earth which comes only on mountain heights, she drew in a long breath of delight, and cried: "At last! at last, Alessandro! Here we are safe! This is freedom! This is joy!

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Sky, Feet, Long

Helen Hunt Jackson (2008). “Ramona”, p.323, Broadview Press

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Stain my eyes as I may, on all sides all is black.

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Eye, Black, May

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The voice of one who goes before, to makeThe paths of June more beautiful, is thineSweet May!

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Beautiful, June, Voice

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Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second.

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Hurt, Pride, Vanity

Helen Hunt Jackson (2010). “Ramona”, p.150, Modern Library

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

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Expression, People, Peculiar

Helen Hunt Jackson (2010). “Ramona”, p.160, Modern Library

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Still lie the sheltering snows, undimmed and white;
And reigns the winter's pregnant silence still;
No sign of spring, save that the catkins fill,
And willow stems grow daily red and bright.
These are days when ancients held a rite
Of expiation for the old year's ill,
And prayer to purify the new year's will.

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New Year, Prayer, Lying

Helen Hunt Jackson (1891). “A Calendar of Sonnets”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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Like a blind spinner in the sun,I tread my days:I know that all the threads will runAppointed ways.I know each day will bring its task,And being blind no more I ask.

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Sun, Tasks, Each Day

Helen Hunt Jackson (1872). “Verses”, p.9

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Born: October 18, 1830
Died: August 12, 1885
Occupation: Poet
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