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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.

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
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Medford
Massachusetts
Lydia Maria Francis Child
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Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.
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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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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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The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.
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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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But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
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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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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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I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.
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Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.
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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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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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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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Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.
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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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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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Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.
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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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