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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
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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It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.
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Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth, as one of the worst enemies of mankind.
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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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But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
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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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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
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An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
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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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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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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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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 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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Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.
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The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.
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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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I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.
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[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.
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