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Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.
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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The civilization of any country may always be measured by the degree of equality between men and women and society will never come truly into order until there is perfect equality and copartnership between them in every department of human life.
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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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A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
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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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An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
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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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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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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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Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth, as one of the worst enemies of mankind.
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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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Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.
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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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Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.
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Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
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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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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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