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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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Geologist
Journalist
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Medford
Massachusetts
Lydia Maria Francis Child
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Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.
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The laws of our being are such that we must perform some degree of use in the world, whether we intend it, or not but we can deprive ourselves of its indwelling joy, by acting entirely from the love of self.
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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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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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I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.
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Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.
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Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth, as one of the worst enemies of mankind.
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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 eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
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Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.
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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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A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
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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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Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature and that individual, or nation, which has it slightly developed, is so far unfortunate. It is a strong spiritual instinct, and seeks to form channels for itself where none exists thus Americans, in the dearth of other objects to worship, fall to worshiping themselves.
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
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But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
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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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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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The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.
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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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