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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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The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals She never produces classes.
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A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
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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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a great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.
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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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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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Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.
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Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.
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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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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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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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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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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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I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.
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It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes, and to make all men feel as if they were brethren of the same family, sharing the same rights, the same capabilities, and the same responsibilities. While my hand can hold a pen, I will use it to this end and while my brain can earn a dollar, I will devote it to this end.
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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
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Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.
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Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.
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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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The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.
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