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Authors
Lydia M. Child
American
Activist
About the author
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
Lydia M. Child,
American
Activist
#Effort
#Happiness
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Lydia M. Child,
American
Activist
#Successful
#Building
#Belief
But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
Lydia M. Child,
American
Activist
#God
#Men
#Suffering
#Consequences
#Laws
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,
American
Activist
#Being
#Spirit
A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
Lydia M. Child,
American
Activist
#Defeat
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
Lydia M. Child,
American
Activist
#Old
#Age
#Childhood
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,
American
Activist
#Man
#Needs
#Trials
#Temptations
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,
American
Activist
#Woman
#Lady
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 M. Child,
American
Activist
#Right
#Evil
#Wrong
#Fight
#Spiritual
#Mistake
#Wickedness
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 M. Child,
American
Activist
#Change
#Women
#Majority
#Custom
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,
American
Activist
#Life
#Word
#Humanity
#Cure
#Lie
#Wrongs
#Vitality
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
Lydia M. Child,
American
Activist
#Eye
#Language
#Expression
#Genius
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.
Lydia M. Child,
American
Activist
#Soul
#Misfortune
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.
Lydia M. Child,
American
Activist
#Being
#Mind
#Intellect
#Devil
#Courage
#Bravery
#Cunning
You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.
Lydia M. Child,
American
Activist
#People
#Effort
#Pleasure
#Battle
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,
American
Activist
#Heart
#Home
#Word
#Heaven