Named source · 1916

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Eleanor H. Porter’s 1916 novel Just David

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Hope, grief, music, beauty, adoption, attitude, kindness, identity and a child’s attempts to understand an unfamiliar social world.

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you yourself can make it beautiful if you will.

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“you yourself can make it beautiful if you will.”

Eleanor H. Porter

Voice: Fictional character · David's father (letter)

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David’s father tells him that even when the world appears bleak, his own choices and actions can still contribute something beautiful to it.

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Just David, represented by Project Gutenberg #440. The sentence appears in a farewell letter from David’s father that other characters read after his death. It is framed fictional advice inside the novel, not Porter speaking autobiographically, and it does not imply that personal attitude can remove every external hardship.

Eleanor H. Porter’s 1916 novel Just David

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