Lydia Maria Child Quotes

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Death will be to him merely passing out of one room filled with friends into another room still more full of friends.

Lydia Maria Child
So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!

Lydia Maria Child
It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.

Lydia Maria Child
It seems as if slavery would be the death of me. If all I suffer on the subject counts as vicarious atonement for the slave-holders, they are in a hopeful way. My indignation rises higher than it used to in my younger days. According to the general rule, I ought to grow calmer, but I do not. If the monster had one head, assuredly I should be a Charlotte Corday.

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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.

Lydia Maria Child
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.

Lydia Maria Child
Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.

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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.

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I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.

Lydia Maria Child
I think we have reason to thank God for Abraham Lincoln. With all his deficiencies, it must be admitted that he has grown continually.

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Flowers…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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In our climate what a misnomer it is to call this season spring! very much like calling Calvinism religion.

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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.

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The United States is... a warning rather than an example to the world.

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Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.

Lydia Maria Child
There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for the amusement of an hour. But now, I have lost the power of looking merely on the surface. Everything seems to me to come from the Infinite, to be filled with the Infinite, to be tending toward the Infinite. Do I see crowds of men hastening to extinguish a fire? I see not merely uncouth garbs, and fantastic, flickering lights, of lurid hue, like a trampling troop of gnomes—but straightway my mind is filled with thoughts about mutual helpfulness, human sympathy, the common bond of brotherhood, and the mysteriously deep foundations on which society rests; or rather, on which it now reels and totters.

Lydia Maria Child
Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.

Lydia Maria Child