Lydia Maria Child Quotes

• It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

  Lydia Maria Child

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• An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

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

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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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• The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

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• The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word ‘love’. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

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• That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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

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• An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

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

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Lydia Maria Child (23)

Birth:	11th February, 1802
Death:	20th October, 1880
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist, Novelist

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