Lydia Child Quotes

Home that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father

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That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.

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A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.

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You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

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But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

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The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, duties, and pursuits of men and women. Women will not become less gentle and graceful, but men will become more so. Women will not neglect the care and education of their children, but men will find themselves ennobled and refined by sharing those duties with them and will receive, in return, co-operation and sympathy in the discharge of various other duties, now deemed inappropriate to women. The more women become rational companions, partners in business and in thought, as well as in affection and amusement, the more highly will men appreciate home.

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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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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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None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

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Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decypher even fragments of their meaning.

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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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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

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