21 Quotations by Lydia M. Child
- 1. A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melanchol ...
- 2. A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
- 3. An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.
- 4. Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
- 5. But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
- 6. Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
- 7. Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. I ...
- 8. Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angel ...
- 9. Genius hath electric power; Which earth can never tame; Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower ...
- 10. Home -- that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and he ...
- 11. It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
- 12. Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is ...
- 13. No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word father.
- 14. None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as ...
- 15. Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature and that individual, or nation, which has it slight ...
- 16. That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters no ...
- 17. That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters no ...
- 18. The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in ...
- 19. The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
- 20. The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, ...
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