Who longest waits most surely wins.
—Helen Hunt Jackson
Topics: Patience, Resilience
Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; all great loves that have ever died dropped dead.
—Helen Hunt Jackson
Topics: Love
Men call fretting a minor fault—a foible and not a vice.—But there is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy the peace and happiness of a home.
—Helen Hunt Jackson
Motherhood is priced
Of God, at price no man may dare
To lessen or misunderstand.
—Helen Hunt Jackson
Topics: Mothers
It is the weakness and danger of republics that the vices as well as virtues of the people are represented in their legislation.
—Helen Hunt Jackson
Oh, write of me, not “Died in bitter pains,” but “Emigrated to another star!”
—Helen Hunt Jackson
Topics: Epitaphs
O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October’s bright blue weather.
—Helen Hunt Jackson
Topics: Seasons, Autumn
Who waits until the wind shall silent keep will never find the ready hour to sow.
—Helen Hunt Jackson
Topics: Secrets of Success
No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, love.
—Helen Hunt Jackson
Topics: Reflection
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