There is nothing so skillful in its own...

Defense Pride Nothing

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

- Helen Hunt Jackson

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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

- Jack Nicholson

Other quotes by Helen Hunt Jackson

Eyes Sound Mother Men

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.

- Helen Hunt Jackson

Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.

- Helen Hunt Jackson

But great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.

- Helen Hunt Jackson

Autumn

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

- Helen Hunt Jackson

Name

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

- Helen Hunt Jackson

Pain Past Years Love

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.

- Helen Hunt Jackson

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