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The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals She never produces classes.
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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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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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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To everything there is a bright side and a dark side and I hold it to be unwise, unphilosophic, unkind to others, and unhealthy for one's own soul, to form the habit of looking on the dark side. Cheerfulness is to the spiritual atmosphere what sunshine is to the earthly landscape. I am resolved to cherish cheerfulness with might and main.
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A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
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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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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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Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
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Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow.
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[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.
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I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.
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Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.
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It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.
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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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Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.
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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
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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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An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
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