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It isn't given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.

Eleanor Porter

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Eleanor Porter
Age: 51 †
Born: 1868
Born: December 19
Died: 1920
Died: May 21
Novelist
Writer
Littleton
New Hampshire
Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porter
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Beginnings
Attend
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Ends

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'Oh, yes,' nodded Pollyanna emphatically. 'He said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it - some.
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The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.
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My relationship with Pollyanna is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.
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... if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it—SOME.
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You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.
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It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?
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Be glad. Be good. Be brave.
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It'll be just lovely for you to play -- it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard!
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Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.
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There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.
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