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An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
Lydia M. Child
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Lydia M. Child
Age: 78 †
Born: 1802
Born: January 1
Died: 1880
Died: January 1
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Medford
Massachusetts
Lydia Maria Francis Child
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Love is the divine quality that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, it gives the power of working miracles if we will.
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
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There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for the amusement of an hour. But now, I have lost the power of looking merely on the surface.
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A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves.
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It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes, and to make all men feel as if they were brethren of the same family, sharing the same rights, the same capabilities, and the same responsibilities. While my hand can hold a pen, I will use it to this end and while my brain can earn a dollar, I will devote it to this end.
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We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.
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It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.
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All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations. They do so much less than they want to do, and so much less than they, at the outset, expected to do, that their lives, viewed retrospectively, inevitably look like failure.
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I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.
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Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.
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A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
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So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!
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Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.
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Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.
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Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.
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Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.
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Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap on the ballot box.
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Thy treasures of gold Are dim with the blood of the hearts thou hast sold Thy home may be lovely, but round it I hear The crack of the whip, and the footsteps of fear.
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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
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Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.
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