Helen Hunt Jackson quotes

Helen Hunt Jackson was an American writer and activist, best known for her work advocating for Native American rights. Her novels, essays, and poems brought national attention to injustices faced by Indigenous peoples. She became a prominent voice for social reform and empathy in the late nineteenth century. Here are 35 of her quotes:

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. (Helen Hunt Jackson)
The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down. View quote
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Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name? View quote
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When Time is spent, Eternity begins. View quote
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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. View quote
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When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget. View quote
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Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand. View quote
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There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride. View quote
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O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind. View quote
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I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod. View quote
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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. (Helen Hunt Jackson)
O month when they who love must love and wed. View quote
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Love has a tide! View quote
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The voice of one who goes before, to make The paths of June more beautiful, is thine Sweet May! View quote
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But great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Who longest waits most surely wins. (Helen Hunt Jackson)
That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they have. View quote
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When on the ground red apples lie there in piles like jewels shining And redder still on old stone walls Are leaves of woodbines twining. View quote
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And every bird I ever knew Back and forth in the summer flew; And breezes wafted over me The scent of every flower and tree: Till I forgot the pain and gloom And silence of my darkened room. View quote
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Father, I scarcely dare to pray, So clear I see, now it is done, How I have wasted half my day, And left my work but just begun. View quote
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Helen Hunt Jackson

Helen Hunt Jackson - Image
Occupation: American Novelist
Born: October 15, 1830
Died: August 12, 1885
Quotes count: 35
Wikipedia: Helen Hunt Jackson

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