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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
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Geologist
Journalist
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Medford
Massachusetts
Lydia Maria Francis Child
Law
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Justice
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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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Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.
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A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
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Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.
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But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
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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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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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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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[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.
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Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.
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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
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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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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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