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So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!
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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But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
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Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.
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It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes, and to make all men feel as if they were brethren of the same family, sharing the same rights, the same capabilities, and the same responsibilities. While my hand can hold a pen, I will use it to this end and while my brain can earn a dollar, I will devote it to this end.
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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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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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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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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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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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Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.
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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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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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The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.
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A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
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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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Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.
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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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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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Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.
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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
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Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.
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