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“Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.”
-- Lydia M. Child

#Inspirational #Motivational #Success
“An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.”
-- Lydia M. Child

#Happiness #Happy #Effort
“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 their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.”
-- Lydia M. Child

#Love #Flower #Angel
“Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.”
-- Lydia M. Child

#Family #Fathers Day #Dad
“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.”
-- Lydia M. Child

#Love #Giving #Miracle
“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

#Fashion #Flower #Mold
“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.”
-- Lydia M. Child

#Inspirational #Encouraging #People
“We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.”
-- Lydia M. Child

#Crush #Diversity #People
“Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.”
-- Lydia M. Child

#Law #Justice #Principles
“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

#Wise #Doe #Spirit
“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.”
-- Lydia M. Child

#Love #Peace #Lying
“Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.”
-- Lydia M. Child

#Angel #Reality #Clouds
“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.”
-- Lydia M. Child

#Prayer #Heart #People
“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

#Selfish #Failure #People
“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

#Home #Heart #Blood
“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

#Horse #Winter #Rivers
“Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. 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.”
-- Lydia M. Child

#Angel #Men #Clouds
“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.”
-- Lydia M. Child

#Responsibility #Equality #Men
“[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.”
-- Lydia M. Child

#Happiness
“A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves.”
-- Lydia M. Child

#Flower #Heart #Autumn
“a great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.”
-- Lydia M. Child

#Mind #Littles #Little Things
“So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!”
-- Lydia M. Child

#Past #Errors #Perspective
“Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.”
-- Lydia M. Child

#Ignorant #Mind #Prejudice
“Philosophy and the arts are but a manifestation of the intelligible ideas that move the public mind; and thus they become visible images of the nations whence they emanate.”
-- Lydia M. Child

#Art #Philosophy #Moving
“The United States is ... a warning rather than an example to the world.”
-- Lydia M. Child

#United States #Example #Warning
“There have always been a large class of thinkers who deny that the world makes any progress. They say we move in a circle; that evils are never conquered, but only change their forms.”
-- Lydia M. Child

#Moving #Class #Circles
“Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.”
-- Lydia M. Child

#Work #Trouble #Cures
“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.”
-- Lydia M. Child

#Self #Law #Joy
“affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality. ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will.”
-- Lydia M. Child

#Blow #Reality #Trumpets
“Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth ... What a vast amount of labour and learning has been expended, as uselessly as emptying shallow puddles into sieves! How much intellect has been employed mousing after texts, to sustain preconceived doctrines!”
-- Lydia M. Child

#Effort #Doctrine #Puddles

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