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The excess of all good things is mischievous.
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Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.
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No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word — father.
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Now twilight lets her curtain down
And pins it with a star.
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I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.
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Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.
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Hurrah for the fun!
Is the pudding done?
Hurrah for the pumpkin pie!
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The United States is... a warning rather than an example to the world.
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
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Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.
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Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.
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It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.
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Oh, these damp, sultry days of August! how oppressive they are to mind and body!
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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kind, sunshiny old age.
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So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!
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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
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But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
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A great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.
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Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.
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Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march, has poorly read his origin and his destiny.
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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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Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.
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Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap on the ballot box.
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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.
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Pillars are fallen at thy feet,
Fanes quiver in the air,
A prostrate city is thy seat,
And thou alone art there.
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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Lady Randolph Churchill
Lydia Maria Child
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Born:
February 11, 1802
Died:
October 20, 1880
(aged 78)
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