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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
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Medford
Massachusetts
Lydia Maria Francis Child
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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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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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Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.
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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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Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.
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I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.
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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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The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals She never produces classes.
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
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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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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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So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!
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