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Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.

Lydia M. Child

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Lydia M. Child
Age: 78 †
Born: 1802
Born: January 1
Died: 1880
Died: January 1
Activist
Geologist
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Medford
Massachusetts
Lydia Maria Francis Child
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Justice
Culture
Human
Humans
Every
Faculty

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A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
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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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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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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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The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals She never produces classes.
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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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The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
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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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a great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.
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Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.
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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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Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.
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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
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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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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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So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!
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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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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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