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Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.

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
Violates
Eternal
Principles
Justice
Law

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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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I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.
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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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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
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It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes, and to make all men feel as if they were brethren of the same family, sharing the same rights, the same capabilities, and the same responsibilities. While my hand can hold a pen, I will use it to this end and while my brain can earn a dollar, I will devote it to this end.
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[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.
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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
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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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Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.
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An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
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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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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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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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A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
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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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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 rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.
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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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