Lydia M. Child

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

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An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

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A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

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But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

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Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

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Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

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Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

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I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

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