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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Lydia M. Child

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Lydia M. Child
Age: 78 †
Born: 1802
Born: January 1
Died: 1880
Died: January 1
Activist
Geologist
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Medford
Massachusetts
Lydia Maria Francis Child
Genius
Power
Earth
Never
Tame
Electric
Hath

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Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.
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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 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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Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.
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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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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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It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.
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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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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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There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for the amusement of an hour. But now, I have lost the power of looking merely on the surface.
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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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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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a great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.
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Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.
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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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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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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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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
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[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.
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