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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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[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.
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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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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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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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Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.
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Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.
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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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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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But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
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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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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
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A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
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It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.
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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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I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.
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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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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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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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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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