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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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Medford
Massachusetts
Lydia Maria Francis Child
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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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a great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.
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Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.
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I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.
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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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Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
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The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.
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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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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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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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Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.
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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
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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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An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
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It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.
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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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[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.
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Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.
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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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