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The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.
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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Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.
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Thy treasures of gold Are dim with the blood of the hearts thou hast sold Thy home may be lovely, but round it I hear The crack of the whip, and the footsteps of fear.
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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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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
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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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Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.
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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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Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.
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A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
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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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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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So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!
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It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.
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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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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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Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.
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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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