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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.
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
Novelist
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Medford
Massachusetts
Lydia Maria Francis Child
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Flowers
Human
Leaves
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It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.
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I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.
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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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Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.
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A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
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An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
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