When Time is spent, Eternity begins.
Wisdom
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Quotes by Helen Hunt Jackson
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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.
Wisdom
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.
Life
Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?
Wisdom
Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.
Wisdom
When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.
Love
O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.
Wisdom
If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.
Wisdom
I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.
Wisdom
The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.
Wisdom
Love has a tide!
Love
Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.
Happiness
On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead.
Wisdom
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.
Love
There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families.
Life
O month when they who love must love and wed.
Love
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.
Wisdom
There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.
Wisdom
As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.
Wisdom
When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.
Wisdom
But great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.
Wisdom
Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.
Wisdom
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.
Wisdom