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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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Medford
Massachusetts
Lydia Maria Francis Child
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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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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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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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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
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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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The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals She never produces classes.
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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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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
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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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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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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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Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.
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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 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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All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations. They do so much less than they want to do, and so much less than they, at the outset, expected to do, that their lives, viewed retrospectively, inevitably look like failure.
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Neither lemonade nor anything else can prevent the inroads of old age. At present, I am stoical under its advances, and hope I shall remain so. I have but one prayer at heart and that is, to have my faculties so far preserved that I can be useful, in some way or other, to the last.
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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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