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"I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born."

"You can't afford to leave your happiness to others. Create what you wish to experience."

"To make it a perfect season, love everyone without reason."

"Every beautiful street is a port of happiness!"
Explore more quotes by Helen Hunt Jackson

"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."

"The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down."

"If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful."

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

"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."
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