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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.

    Eight   Want   Trouble  
    Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin
  • My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

  • I love different folks.

    Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin
  • Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.

    Aunt   Pollyanna   Havens  
    Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin
  • I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.

    Long Ago   Trying   Sound  
  • What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut ... Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out! ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

    Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin
  • Be glad. Be good. Be brave.

  • Just breathing isn't living!

    Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin
  • Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas

    Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin
  • '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.

    Father   Eight   Ems  
    "Pollyanna".
  • Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.

    Sides   Plates   Courses  
    Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin
  • There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.

    Book   Thoughtful   Men  
    Eleanor H. Porter (2006). “Oh, Money! Money!”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.

    Book   Light   West  
    Eleanor H. Porter (2008). “Mary Marie (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?

    Dog   Cat   Pet  
    Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin
  • The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

    Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin
  • 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!

    Fun   Play   Lovely  
    Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin
  • 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.

    Sleep   Night   Might  
  • I should think you could be gladder on Monday mornin' than any other day in the week, because 'twould be a whole week before you'd have another one!

    Monday   Thinking   Week  
    Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin
  • ... there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.

    Hunting   Long   Enough  
    Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin
  • It isn't given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.

    Eleanor H. Porter (2012). “The Road to Understanding”, p.192, The Floating Press
  • One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried.

    Mother   Husband   Tired  
    Eleanor H. Porter (2008). “Mary Marie (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)”, p.38, ReadHowYouWant.com
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