| 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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- Lydia Maria Child |
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| Every human being has... an attendant spirit.... If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. |
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- Lydia Maria Child |
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| Usefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental. |
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- Lydia Maria Child |
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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 their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. |
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- Lydia Maria Child |
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| Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! |
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- Lydia Maria Child |
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| Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame. |
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- Lydia Maria Child |
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