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A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
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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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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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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An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
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Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.
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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
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It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.
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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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[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.
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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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Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
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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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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.
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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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Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.
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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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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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