Quote

So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!

Lydia M. Child

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lydia M. Child
Age: 78 †
Born: 1802
Born: January 1
Died: 1880
Died: January 1
Activist
Geologist
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Medford
Massachusetts
Lydia Maria Francis Child
Ages
Acknowledge
Errors
Perspective
Age
Difficult
Easy
Past

More quotes by Lydia M. Child

Image
Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.
Lydia M. Child
Image
Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.
Lydia M. Child
Image
It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.
Lydia M. Child
Image
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.
Lydia M. Child
Image
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.
Lydia M. Child
Image
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.
Lydia M. Child
Image
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.
Lydia M. Child
Image
[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.
Lydia M. Child
Image
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.
Lydia M. Child
Image
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.
Lydia M. Child
Image
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Lydia M. Child
Image
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.
Lydia M. Child
Image
It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.
Lydia M. Child
Image
The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals She never produces classes.
Lydia M. Child
Image
a great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.
Lydia M. Child
Image
Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.
Lydia M. Child
Image
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.
Lydia M. Child
Image
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.
Lydia M. Child
Image
Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.
Lydia M. Child
Image
Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.
Lydia M. Child