Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.
About Lucy Larcom
Lucy Larcomwas an American teacher, poet, and author. She was one of the first teachers at Wheaton Female Seminaryin Norton, Massachusetts, teaching there from 1854 to 1862.
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If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
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I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.
American teacher, poet, author (1824-1893)
We might all place ourselves in one of two ranks the women who do something, and the women who do nothing; the first being of course the only creditable place to occupy.
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Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.
American teacher, poet, author (1824-1893)