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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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Medford
Massachusetts
Lydia Maria Francis Child
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I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.
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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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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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Neither lemonade nor anything else can prevent the inroads of old age. At present, I am stoical under its advances, and hope I shall remain so. I have but one prayer at heart and that is, to have my faculties so far preserved that I can be useful, in some way or other, to the last.
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Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.
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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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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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The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals She never produces classes.
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Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.
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Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.
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It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.
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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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[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.
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Love is the divine quality that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, it gives the power of working miracles if we will.
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