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• We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

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  Crush, People, Diversity

  "An Appeal on Behalf of That Class of Americans Called Africans". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Chapter VI, utc.iath.virginia.edu. 1833.

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• Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.

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  Fashion, Flower, Being Different

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• our republican ideas cannot be consistently carried out while women are excluded from any share in the government. ... Any class of human beings to whom a position of perpetual subordination is assigned, however much they may be petted and flattered, must inevitably be dwarfed, morally and intellectually.

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  Government, Class, Ideas

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• Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.

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  Love, Flower, Angel

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 26, 1843.

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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.

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  Book, Female, Acquaintance

  "Concerning Women". Independent, October 21, 1869.

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• Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

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  Angel, Reality, Clouds

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 39, 1843.

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• If we really believed that those who are gone from us were as truly alive as ourselves, we could not invest the subject with such awful depth of gloom as we do. If we could imbue our children with distinct faith in immortality, we should never speak of people as dead, but passed into another world. We should speak of the body as a cast-off garment, which the wearer had outgrown; consecrated indeed by the beloved being that used it for a season, but of no value within itself.

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  Death, Children, People

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• Neither lemonade nor anything else can prevent the inroads of old age. At present, I am stoical under its advances, and hope I shall remain so. I have but one prayer at heart; and that is, to have my faculties so far preserved that I can be useful, in some way or other, to the last.

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  Prayer, Heart, People

  Letter to Harriet Seward, 1869.

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

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  Men, Law, Suffering

  "The Freedmen's Book‎". Book by Lydia Maria Child, p. 39, 1869.

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• I think every individual, and every society, is perfected just in proportion to the combination, and cooperation, of masculine and feminine elements of character. He is the most perfect man who is affectionate as well as intellectual; and she is the most perfect woman who is intellectual as well as affectionate. Every art and science becomes more interesting, viewed both from the masculine and feminine points of view.

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  Art, Character, Men

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

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  Love, Birthday, Childhood

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• We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the time.

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  Change, Mean, Details

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• Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.

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  Heart, Glowing, Age

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 33, 1843.

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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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  Rap, Justice, Diversity

  Letter to Sarah Shaw, 1856.

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

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  Reform, Defeat, Reformers

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• That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.

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  Song, Nature, Men

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 38, 1843.

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• Over the river and through the wood,
  To grandfather's house we go;
  The horse knows the way
  To carry the sleigh,
  Through the white and drifted snow.

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  Horse, Winter, Rivers

  "The New England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day". "Flowers for Children". Book by Lydia Maria Child, www.potw.org. 1845.

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• Thy treasures of gold
  Are dim with the blood of the hearts thou hast sold;
  Thy home may be lovely, but round it I hear
  The crack of the whip, and the footsteps of fear.

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  Home, Heart, Blood

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• It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.

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  Spiritual, Philosophy, Mistake

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• There have always been a large class of thinkers who deny that the world makes any progress. They say we move in a circle; that evils are never conquered, but only change their forms.

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  Moving, Class, Circles

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• No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.

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  Father, Ears, Music Is

  "Philothea". Book by Lydia M. Child, 1836.

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• Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

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  Electric Power, Genius, Earth

  "Marius amid the Ruins of Carthage". Poem by Lydia Maria Child,

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• The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those who have viewed it calmly from a distance. ... It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world. What destruction of the beautiful monuments of past ages, what waste of life, what disturbance of domestic and social happiness, what perverted feelings, what blighted hearts, have always marked its baneful progress!

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  Beautiful, Selfish, Distance

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• Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth ... What a vast amount of labour and learning has been expended, as uselessly as emptying shallow puddles into sieves! How much intellect has been employed mousing after texts, to sustain preconceived doctrines!

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  Effort, Doctrine, Puddles

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• 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.

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  Jesus, Bravery, Political

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 34, 1843.

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