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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
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Geologist
Journalist
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Medford
Massachusetts
Lydia Maria Francis Child
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Earth
Never
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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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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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It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.
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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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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 eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
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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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a great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.
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