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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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Exercise
Justice
Culture
Human
Humans
Every
Faculty

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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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[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.
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The civilization of any country may always be measured by the degree of equality between men and women and society will never come truly into order until there is perfect equality and copartnership between them in every department of human life.
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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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I think we have reason to thank God for Abraham Lincoln. With all his deficiencies, it must be admitted that he has grown continually.
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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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But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
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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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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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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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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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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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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
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Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.
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Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.
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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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The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.
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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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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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Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.
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