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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
Electric
Hath
Genius
Power
Earth
Never
Tame

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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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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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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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The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals She never produces classes.
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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
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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 rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.
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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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Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.
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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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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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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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So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!
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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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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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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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Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.
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To everything there is a bright side and a dark side and I hold it to be unwise, unphilosophic, unkind to others, and unhealthy for one's own soul, to form the habit of looking on the dark side. Cheerfulness is to the spiritual atmosphere what sunshine is to the earthly landscape. I am resolved to cherish cheerfulness with might and main.
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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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