Lydia Sigourney Quotes

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We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?

Lydia Sigourney
Ye say they all have pass'd away,
That noble race and brave,
That their light canoes have vanish'd
From off the crested wave
That mid the forests where they roam'd
There rings no hunter's shout;
But their name is on your waters,
Ye may not wash it out.

Lydia Sigourney
The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well-ordered homes of the people.

Lydia Sigourney
The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.

Lydia Sigourney
Admitting that it is the profession of our sex to teach, we perceive the mother to be first in point of precedence, in degree of power, in the faculty of teaching, and in the department allotted. For in point of precedence she is next to the Creator, in power over her pupil, limitless and without competitor.

Lydia Sigourney
Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth.

Lydia Sigourney
Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.

Lydia Sigourney
Praise to our Father-God,
High praise in solemn lay,
Alike for what His hand hath given,
And what it takes away.

Lydia Sigourney
Not on the outer world For inward joy depend; Enjoy the luxury of thought, Make thine own self friend; Not with the restless throng, In search of solace roam But with an independent zeal Be intimate at home.

Lydia Sigourney
The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires.

Lydia Sigourney
As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of time.

Lydia Sigourney
Youth would be too happy, might it add to its own beauty and felicity the wisdom and experience of riper years. Were it possible for it to realize the worth of time, as life's receding hours reveal it, how rapidly would it press on towards perfection!

Lydia Sigourney