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Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.
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
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Medford
Massachusetts
Lydia Maria Francis Child
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
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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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[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.
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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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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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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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A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
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Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.
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I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.
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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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Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.
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