There is nothing so skilful in its own defence as imperious… - Helen Hunt Jackson

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There is nothing so skilful in its own defence as imperious pride. […] 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; and so on till death.

Helen Hunt Jackson

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About Helen Hunt Jackson

Helen Maria (Fiske) Hunt Jackson (October 18, 1830 – August 12, 1885) was an American writer best known as the author of Ramona, a novel about the ill treatment of Native Americans in southern California.

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Pen Names: H.H

Birth Name: Helen Maria Fiske

Alternative Names: Helen Maria Fiske Hunt Jackson • H. H. Jackson • Helen Maria Fiske Jackson • Helen Maria Hunt • Helen Maria Hunt Jackson • Helen Hunt

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Alfred Tennyson William Butler Yeats William Cullen Bryant Robert Browning

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Father, I scarcely dare to pray,
So clear I see, now it is done,
That I have wasted half my day,
And left my work but just begun.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

When on the ground red apples lie
In piles like jewels shining,
And redder still on old stone walls
Are leaves of woodbines twining.

There is nothing so skilful in its own defence as imperious pride. […] Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteou… - Helen Hunt Jackson

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