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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.
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
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Medford
Massachusetts
Lydia Maria Francis Child
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Abraham
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Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.
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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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Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.
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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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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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It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.
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Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.
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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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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.
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I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.
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Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.
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Love is the divine quality that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, it gives the power of working miracles if we will.
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We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.
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