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Lydia M. Child
Age: 78 †
Born: 1802
Born: January 1
Died: 1880
Died: January 1
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Geologist
Journalist
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Medford
Massachusetts
Lydia Maria Francis Child
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Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.
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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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The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.
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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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The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals She never produces classes.
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I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.
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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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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
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A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
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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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It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.
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An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
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a great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.
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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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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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Neither lemonade nor anything else can prevent the inroads of old age. At present, I am stoical under its advances, and hope I shall remain so. I have but one prayer at heart and that is, to have my faculties so far preserved that I can be useful, in some way or other, to the last.
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Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.
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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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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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